She Announced My Replacement at the Ballet. Then the Curtain Rose on Her Ruin.

the locks first.

Then the curtains.

Then the names on the accounts.

In the East 70th library, I removed the portrait beneath which Graham had kissed Celeste.

Not because I wanted to erase the insult.

Because my father deserved better lighting.

I replaced it with a photograph of my grandmother as a young woman standing outside the Harrington Theater in 1976.continue reading …