The most important thing— conduct yourself with courtesy. Don’t talk. Walk your dog quietly on the November grass in its mourning coat of late-day
and leaves, swirls of gold and red— and I’m on a slow train through Lorraine in October, Bob and I on three-day passes,
Prayer for the Intercession of St. Teresa of Ávila, Patron Saint of Migraines O namesake saint of visions and ecstasy, pray for me— I