One ‘yes’ and our doors blew open into sleepless nights, emergency room visits, social worker calls, and milky white spit-up on every shirt, couch, and rug we own. Some days neglecting hospitality seems

We lounge at the expense of lounging like some lazy tabby now vexed in the shade because the sun has moved like hungry alabaster Narcissus drooping to himself like an ice-weighted Georgian conifer

On the patio. Iron chairs. Friend of mine whistling to a bird. Crow flopping over. Magnolia once sapling. Perfectionist neighbor. Sky empty of airplanes. Clouds in sky. Strange moon. If two moons. Waves