06-07.
on friday
i pulled into alex's driveway
after ten days without him.
he had been waiting in the cold
for twenty minutes, until the moment
i turned the corner and parked
beside his house.
we spent two nights there
with his family, two nights here,
and then returned to Ewing yesterday.
today, i had to leave him there.
i had just enough strength
to back up out of his driveway,
turn left and then right and then
right again onto Pennington,
all the while biting my lip.
i cried until exit fifty.
and then, i laughed at myself,
because that seemed the appropriate thing
to do.
i pulled into alex's driveway
after ten days without him.
he had been waiting in the cold
for twenty minutes, until the moment
i turned the corner and parked
beside his house.
we spent two nights there
with his family, two nights here,
and then returned to Ewing yesterday.
today, i had to leave him there.
i had just enough strength
to back up out of his driveway,
turn left and then right and then
right again onto Pennington,
all the while biting my lip.
i cried until exit fifty.
and then, i laughed at myself,
because that seemed the appropriate thing
to do.