Nobody is answering their phone. Why would they? Outside is a blaze. In every window, you see them flame reflected in their wide eyes,
“If it’s darkness we’re having, let it be extravagant!” —Jane Kenyon Let it be the deep feathery darkness of a power outage, the houses
The x-ray scans for lesions spelling cancer on the ribs. You’re at a hospital 1,200 miles away and night’s played its last encore. I’m