The Guard Asked Who They Were Here to See

off bags of baby clothes at the apartment office. Never knocked. Never asked me to come to church. Just left things. Onesies, a little yellow sleeper with ducks on it, a bottle of baby shampoo.

I never found out if my mother sent her.

I still don’t know.

The thing my daughter did without asking

Naomi reached for my hand in the foyer before the ceremony continue reading …