Someone Goes Over Old Love Letters
someone forgets for a moment, thinks of going next door to borrow — then falls apart. Someone still expects a woman with strong arms coming back with groceries and a joke. Some one waits for a black Honda, thinks of the smell of coffee. In another house, someone starts to make lunch but there’s no one to make lunch for. She can’t stop seeing the shapes tumbling from the sky. Someone sets up an alter with incense and a drawing. Her child stops before it, says “come eat dinner...
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