a kindness this agreeing to be those who were mine forgiven forgiving on behalf of the missing and absent and gone be everyone to me smooth the sheets crackle […]

  The only hint something was wrong for those not paying attention was a ladder left aslant against a tree long after the fruit rotted from the branches and madness […]

  Did you think when I begged for assurance when I asked you over and over and over again to come looking for me if I disappeared that my departure […]