Eighteen Years After Ray Abandoned Him on a Dirt Road, Thomas Found His Mother’s Letter
Bills.
She wrote down the date she bought that ledger.”
The demolition crew began at four on Monday afternoon.
I picked Diane up at five.
We sat at the end of her dock with our shoes on the boards.
The pavilion frame stood on the lawn like a rib cage.
Two men in orange shirts worked the beams loose and let them down on ropes.
Diane held a thermos in both hands.
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