From The Immediate and No Sooner, the collection published in 2021.
From 3/26/20.
271.
shoelaces
arranging themselves
with a lot of painful twisting
272.
my hands.
so nervous.
I’m afraid.
273.
Every one of the guests
had said more than enough to
settle the rumors forever.



The last one is delightful – I read it over and over playing the scene in my mind…
Thank you. I enjoy it when these little scenarios kind of appear in my writing and even I wonder what are the things that might happen. I’ve enjoyed a mystery since I was born, I think (a naturally nosy person that I am).
Nice 👍🏿 very well written as usual
Thank you!