“Counting the Casualties”

Volume 8 | Spring 2018

by Lisa Stice

after the KC-130 accident, 10 July 2017

 

my husband asks if I heard the news
and I say yes

we are quiet for a long while

then I ask if he knew any of them
and he says yes

I am home
he is home
our daughter plays in the living room
our dog naps under the coffee table