After We Laid My Daughter To Rest, My Son-in-law Told Me I Had 60 Days To Leave

alone.”

We sat on the porch steps, two men not pretending we were more alike than we were, and watched the streetlights wink on one by one.

After he left, I made tea and carried it to the back porch and told Denise about the day out loud in the way people talk to memories when the night is gentle.

The house settled around me with those home sounds that continue reading …