The Crate in the Parking Lot
I moved to second shift, two-thirty to eleven.
Ximena took the mornings and the school run.
Odile, at eleven, was at home with whoever was not at school from three-fifteen until Ximena got back at five.
Dorcas Pham had Willa on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
I saw my children between six-forty in the morning and one-thirty in the afternoon, and on Sundays.
That is the actual shape of it.
Not a man valiantly attending everything.