At the Edge of Waking
“Mangy stucco and peeling green trim, waist-high wire fence that sags off its rusty poles, brown lawn so shorn it is more stubble than grass. The cab pulls up to the curb and when I pay the driver he looks philosophical about the size of the tip. He’s probably known it was coming since he picked me up at the Greyhound station.“Just here for a visit?” he’d asked with a glance at my knapsack. But I didn’t encourage conversation and when I get out he doesn’t say a word. He drives off as soon as the... door is shut, leaving me to stand on the cracked cement and wait for anxiety to pounce. Fear, relief, guilt. I am sure I’m supposed to feel guilt, and the dread of returning to a place I never meant to see again. Waiting for it all beside the curb.My mother’s corpse was in the hospital morgue for more than a week before the lawyer’s office tracked me down.A dog barks out back, across the alley behind the house. It’s such an ordinary neighborhood, neither middle class nor poor.MoreLess
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