She uses a lot of imagery of an empty house; "oily marks appear on walls" describing the clean outlines in the dust of hung pictures that have been removed, and "crop circles in the carpet" referring to the circles left by furniture after it's been moved. Since it probably isn't really just about furniture, it makes me think of the raw impressions that would be left exposed on a person once a friend of family member that they've depended on for years has been removed.
The whole thing seems to me to be describing the trauma of a split household from the perspective of a child that doesn't understand, using the strangeness of a changed home or a new house as a metaphor.
She uses a lot of imagery of an empty house; "oily marks appear on walls" describing the clean outlines in the dust of hung pictures that have been removed, and "crop circles in the carpet" referring to the circles left by furniture after it's been moved. Since it probably isn't really just about furniture, it makes me think of the raw impressions that would be left exposed on a person once a friend of family member that they've depended on for years has been removed.
The whole thing seems to me to be describing the trauma of a split household from the perspective of a child that doesn't understand, using the strangeness of a changed home or a new house as a metaphor.
Sends chills down my spine every time.