bye-bye summer
Photos by Billy
It’s hoodie cold at 8:00 am, when we go out to walk the dogs. Their breathing makes puffs of fog. William totters behind them on the gravel driveway.
He is a practically a new kid each morning: piercing bits of red pepper on a fork, or playing bongos, toy piano, ukulele. Clapping, singing, closing doors, and climbing steps; saying words like “doggie”, (ba)”nana”, “baby”, and especially “bye-bye” with an increasing sense of meaning, as if he is beginning to understand absence.
Everything inside us and around us is changing: the houses on the hill are framed in, leaves are floating down onto the overgrown lawn; Billy is writing love songs and I am writing stories about loss.
It’s hot out at noontime. The pools are all closed, but our lone tomato plant has one red fruit. Its yellowing leaves still smell exactly like summer.
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Hi Jocelyn,
Loved hearing Will talk the other night on voicemail!
He is learning so much each day.
Cute photo of him at the pool.
Love,
Linda
how does sweet will do with the dogs? is molly still living?
I can’t believe that was just four paragraphs. The scenes are as vivid in my head as if you wrote 10 pages.