She Tried To Take His Lake Cabin Before The SUV Pulled Into The Driveway

able to name it until I had it, and now that I had it I understood it: the sound of a man finally allowed to hear himself breathe.

The dock planks were rough under my palms. The coffee was warm. The lake made its patient, indifferent sound against the stone shore below me.

I had everything I had come here for.

Everything I had carried for forty-one years.continue reading …