Adelaide B. Shaw
Millbrook, New York, USA

Final Trip

Telephone calls after ten p.m. are a nuisance. It’s too late to be chatty and friendly. Telephone calls in the middle of the night or very early in the morning are dreaded. The call comes neither early, nor late—nine a.m. I had seen Mom in October, when days were golden and her prognosis promising.

battered suitcase
November enters
through the seams