There Would Be Food Tomorrow
And I found the food, all of it, hidden.
Under her bed.
Tucked inside her backpack.
Stashed in the back of her closet.
My daughter had taken every piece of food I left out and hidden it, the way a person hides food when they have learned that it disappears.
I did not say a word; her therapist had warned me, explicitly, not to shame her.
I simply refilled the basket.
And the next day I refilled it again.