I Traveled Across the Country to See My Son but He Told Me to Wait Outside Like a Stranger

Sundays, all that loving from a distance, all the calls I had made in the margins of Nick’s attention and the visits that had never quite been scheduled into permanence, and I thought about the red door closing on a party that had been planned for me but could apparently wait fifteen minutes to include me.

I woke at three in the morning with my heart continue reading …