The Secret Place
She thought that was extremely funny.
She has repeated it to about four people.
I want to end on the smallest thing I have, because it is the one that actually tells me where we are.
We drive a lot.
School, Tuesdays at four, the pool, a friend’s house out past the parkway.
Probably forty minutes a day, most days, two people in a car.
For about a year I could not stop checking the mirror.
Not consciously, at first.