My Seventy Eight Year Old Neighbor Gave Me A Key To Her Shed And I Was Not Ready For What I Found

with the certainty of someone who has just received an instruction that comes from beyond the usual reach of instructions that I was not going home before I opened the shed.

The afternoon light was going thin by the time I came around to her backyard through the side gate. Her yard had the particular stillness of spaces that were recently maintained continue reading …