Numbers...

Numbers have suddenly been disappearing: falling off my life like stars.

Dates have fallen off my calendar leaving behind blank white squares. And I dont know how to fill up their flaking, gaping emptiness.

Phone numbers have vanished with homes changing home-makers...whose number is it now?

Where have they gone?

 

And when she slept, she shut her eyes so tight, the lids looked haphazardly run-stitch together...looked like pillows hurriedly sewn together to not let even a feather slip out...