While I Was Recovering In The Hospital My Parents Made A Move That Changed Everything

photos and jewelry as part of a bundle my mother described as a cleanout, suggested that they had cleared my apartment not surgically, not taking only what could be resold for useful amounts, but comprehensively, as though the goal was not revenue but erasure.

I thought about that word for a long time. Erasure.

My cousin reached me through a mutual friend’s continue reading …