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A jeweler appraises a ring, 1960. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

I recently proposed to my girlfriend, and so I spent much of the past few years thinking about engagement rings. In Western culture, at least, the ring has taken on such symbolic significance that we casually and almost exclusively refer to a part of the human body in relation to its function as ring carrier\u2014the one true purpose of the digitus quartus<\/em>. Spend enough time shopping for engagement rings and one might come to believe that every aspect of a person\u2019s being exists only to honor the extra-human perfection that is the ring. But spend some time in The Paris Review<\/em> archive and one might find that the ring is as multifaceted as any radiant cut diamond, as subject to human frailty as the promises, ideals, and bonds it has come to symbolize, and as individual as the hand on which it rests.<\/p>\n

In issue no. 225, Cristina Rivera Garza\u2019s \u201cSimple Pleasure. Pure Pleasure.<\/a>\u201d (expertly translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker) is a story built around the desire for a particular ring:<\/p>\n

She walked around the decapitated body and paused to look at the dead man\u2019s left hand. There, around his ring finger, right above the edge of a large pool of blood, was the jade ring. Two entwined, green serpents. An extremely delicate thing. The Detective shot her hand out toward the object but stopped short of touching it. There was something about the ring, something between the ring and the world, that blocked her contact. It was then that she looked at her own hand, immobile and large, suspended in the dawn air.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Stephanie Danler also employs serpentine imagery in \u201cThe Unravelers<\/a>,\u201d which appeared on the Daily <\/em>in 2015:<\/p>\n

Sometime between Edward Church with his doomed oil ship and her reign as resident tart of the old-folks home, Adelaide took all of the diamonds from her wedding and engagement rings and turned them into a new ring. A snake.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a phallic symbol,\u201d my aunt said to me. The ring had been hers, the eldest girl of her generation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounds cursed,\u201d I said. I was eighteen.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course.\u201d She dropped it into my hand. \u201cThe curse isn\u2019t the marriages. It\u2019s Adelaide\u2019s sex drive.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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From sex drives to \u201cInstruments of Seduction<\/a>,\u201d Norman Rush\u2019s short story for issue no. 93:<\/p>\n

She was ringless. She had put on and then taken off her scarab ring. Tonight she wanted the feeling that bare hands and bare feet would give. She would ease off her sandals at the right moment. She knew she was giving up a proven piece of business\u2014idly taking off her ring when the occasion reached a certain centigrade. Men saw it subliminally as taking off a wedding ring and as the first act of undressing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In \u201cPoetry Rx: And You Want to Be Liked<\/a>,\u201d Kaveh Akbar summons the image of the ring for a bit of relationship advice from Eduardo C. Corral\u2019s poem \u201cTo Robert Hayden\u201d:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of those magical pieces where silence feels like the poet\u2019s true medium, language is just the negative space around it. You have been forced to build a new life out of such negative space, and it sounds like you\u2019ve done so admirably: your happy friends are evidence of as much. But now, miracle of miracles, someone is in love with you again!<\/p>\n

I tossed
\nmy ring\u2014gold,
\ninscribed\u2014toward a pile
\nof clothes.
\nBut the ring
\ndropped in the small
\nof your back
\nwhere it rattled
\n& rattled like a coin
\nin a beggar\u2019s
\ncup.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The narrator of Allan Gurganus\u2019s clever and tender story \u201cA Body Tends to Shine<\/a>\u201d struggles to recover her wedding ring after her baby swallows it, from issue no. 95:<\/p>\n

Tell me: How do you usually get your valuable rings out of your<\/em> Baby\u2019s sweet gullet?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t plan to make you ill with the crudest details of my ring-search. Let\u2019s just say: Motherhood! Let\u2019s say I borrowed many old newspapers from the neighbors. These unmarried people hoarded papers for just such family emergencies. But, not having no families, they lent their bounty to us instead. Seemed our house stirred up troubles enough to keep a radio soap show in daily episodes forever. Times, it felt like I had more problems than Dick Tracy. I asked neighbors not to tell the ring news to our well-meaning pharmacist, the human P.A. system. Folks agreed but grilled me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the plight of the missing wedding ring also plagues the eponymous hero of Robert Pack\u2019s poem \u201cClayfeld Renews His Vow<\/a>,\u201d from issue no. 99:<\/p>\n

Clayfeld attempted to recall
\nthe pattern etched so clearly on his ring:
\nthe hieroglyphs suggestive
\nof departing birds above a stream whose flow showed
\nonly as an undulating line.
\nTwelve birds\u2014for each month of the year\u2014
\nthat\u2019s more, he thought, than he
\nremembered being there. And yet how many rings
\ncould have designs like that?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The extended image of a wedding ring breaks up a list of short answers to the title question in Nina MacLaughlin\u2019s \u201cWhat Color Is the Sky?<\/a>,\u201d from the Daily<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Garnet. Lavender. Turmeric. Charcoal. Periwinkle. Dirt road. Yarrow. Powder. Bruise. Rice. Absinthe. Piss. Shadow. Mussel shell. Ash. Blood clot. Clementine. Pistachio. Mauve. Faun. Inner thigh. Midnight. Cantaloupe. Underblanket. Honey. Olive. Orgasm. Peppermint. Raisin. Sapphire like the wedding ring my mother wore, a thin band of tiny flat sapphires so dark it looked black, but off her finger, where always it is now, marriage done, held up in the light, deep dark blue. Heather. Smoke. Yolk. Bone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Similarly, a ring works as an anchor point for \u201cThey Called Her the Witch<\/a>\u201d by Fernanda Melchor, translated with all its beautiful momentum by Sophie Hughes, from issue no. 231:<\/p>\n

\u2026 they told the Witch that she had until the next day to pack her bags and leave town, that she was mad if she thought they\u2019d let a slut like her get her hands on their father\u2019s assets: the land, the house, that house that, even after all those years, was still unfinished, as lavish and warped as Don Manolo\u2019s dreams, with its elaborate staircase and banisters decked in plaster cherubs, its high ceilings where the bats made their roosts, and, hidden somewhere, or so the story went, the money, a shedload of gold coins that Don Manolo had inherited from his father and never banked, not forgetting the diamond, the diamond ring that no one had ever seen, not even the sons, but that was said to hold a stone so big it looked fake, a bona fide heirloom that had belonged to Don Manolo\u2019s grandmother, a certain Se\u00f1ora Chucita Villagarbosa de los Monteros de Conde, and that by both legal and divine right belonged to the boys\u2019 mother, Don Manolo\u2019s real wife, his legitimate wife in the eyes of God and man alike, not to that slut, that conniving, homicidal upstart the Witch \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For Frederick Seidel, the ring serves as both an indictment and an invitation to the divine in his poem \u201cNow<\/a>,\u201d published on the Daily <\/em>in 2017:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m trumpeting the most dazzling imitation
\nDiamond ring you\u2019ll ever see,
\nSet by the expat genius jeweler JAR in Paris,
\nWhom nothing ostentatious can embarrass,
\nTo celebrate the catastrophe of America, the American catastrophe.
\nThe only possession of mine
\nGod will want to grab<\/p>\n

Is on my pinkie
\nWhen I\u2019m laid out naked on the slab,
\nAnd here comes God\u2014who\u2019s of course a she\u2014
\nWho removes the ring,
\nAnd slides my corpse
\nFor cremation
\nInto her big hot thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To close, Hollis Summers tells a whole story with just these few ring-centric lines from \u201cMister Joseph Botts<\/a>,\u201d way back in issue no. 8:<\/p>\n

The bandaged ring was replaced by a silver basketball, a fraternity pin, and then another ring, diamond this time.<\/p>\n

Then no ring shone. Suddenly no ring shone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Christopher Notarnicola\u2019s work was featured in <\/em>The Best American Essays 2017 and has been published in <\/em>American Short Fiction, <\/em>Bellevue Literary Review, <\/em>Consequence Magazine, <\/em>Image, <\/em>North American Review, <\/em>The Southampton Review, and elsewhere. Find him in Pompano Beach, Florida, and at christophernotarnicola.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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