I Came Home From Work to Find Six of My Husband’s Relatives Waiting for Dinner

reflex while my own energy was somewhere past empty. What I do not mourn is the smile I wore like a tool. The automatic one. The one that cost nothing and meant nothing.

I have not worn that smile since.

Last Saturday I went for a run in the park three blocks east. Early enough to be cold, the kind of pale winter cold that makes the light look clean continue reading …