Ordinary Men
Ordinary Men is full of little love stories about the ordinary lives of men I have loved.
I don’t know how long I stayed awake like that but eventually, I fell asleep.
The Teacher, the Boy, the Blonde, the Man, the Redhead. Each name offered up in silent prayer: the pantheon of my love and longing, nestled high atop some modern-day Olympus.
You thought about rain and swaying trees; the way the world looks right after a storm: gray and slightly shaken, but still whole.
I didn't do dishes and he hated doing laundry for two people.
