Mourning Rounds

“Today is a good morning.”
How did I not feel it?
Phone rings, stomach knots, answer it.
“Are you sitting down?”
I don’t sit. I sink, then float, looking down at the scrub-clad
girl shivering on the
hospital floor.
Footsteps approach, tentative hands on shoulders.
“I don’t want to be the girl whose mom died.”

Paighton Noel

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