Candles
The shortening days: bringing a hand-poured candle to a new mother
By mid-October it is dark at five, and a house with a newborn slips into long early evenings. What do you carry to that house? From the jar candle my mother brought to Konya to the first candles I poured myself: why the oldest gift for a loğusa — a woman in her first forty days after birth — has always been light.
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