Crossword-Solution: SPIRES 6 letters, 60 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

I wanted a settled life and a shocking one. Think of Van Gogh, cypress trees and church spires under a sky of writhing snakes. I was my father's daughter. I wanted to be loved by someone like my tough judicious mother and I wanted to run screaming through the headlights with a bottle in my hand. That was the family curse. We tended to nurse flocks of undisciplined wishes that collided and canceled each other out. The curse implied that if we didn't learn to train our desires …

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

Gretel in Darkness: This is the world we wanted. All who would have seen us deadare dead. I hear the witch's crybreak in the moonlight through a sheetof sugar: God rewards. Her tongue shrivels into gas.... Now, far from women's arms And memory of women, in our father's hutwe sleep, are never hungry. Why do I not forget? My father bars the door, bars harmfrom this house, and it is years. No one remembers. Even you, my brother, summer afternoons you look at me as thoughyou mean…