She dreamt (the worst beginning) everything turned on the story entrusted to her telling but her hands clenched vicious defense around meaning flesh bitten by unfolded details her mouth […]

  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 […]