7.17.22

The other day, sitting with _____in the living room, she told me she was finally going home. 

-I can almost hear the crickets at night, she said. 
-I can almost hear them too, I replied. 

She looked at me the way she did whenever I tried to speak like a poet. 

-Should I be concerned? 
-Yes. 

We both laughed then before slipping into quiet. Between us only the imagined sound of crickets at night.