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

calls taken while driving and all the visits that had been soon and then not yet and then never quite, and I thought about Emma’s hand around my fingers in the living room and the banner and the lemon cake and the photographs of me in frames on his mantelpiece.

“Yes,” I said. “I will let you try. And I will tell you when it is not enough. That is also continue reading …