“Usually Bird Lady doesn’t say or do anything unusual, and that’s where our conversation about her ends. But this week has deviated from the norm.”
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“He first feels the ghost when he’s ten-years-old and plays for an audience for the first time. His ten-year-old fingers are thin and smooth and a bit too short to stretch the way he needs them to, but the ghost helps him.”
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“You’re there when the leaves change. / They crunch under my feet like crepe paper,”
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“The day you died, snow fell / as if the sky were apologizing / for the hardness of the Earth and darkness of night,”
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“I look forward as I run, through the mist, fog, thick, dense. There is a hill; if we get there, we can roll down and shield ourselves.”
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“I can only bench the bar,” you’ll tell your guy friends jokingly. Everyone will laugh, including you, but you’ll wonder why you felt the need to make a joke of it.
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