burn between us
The inventory of the present: the person asleep beside him, the coffee downstairs, the house that held them, the year behind, the year ahead.
The year behind: the network ended. Forty-one arrests. The closing statement. The fourth novel published — the last of the sequence, The Morning, the one that handed the reader their own kitchen. Nadia in Warsaw, training year, the byline forming. Nino beside her. Ivana in Zagreb, corresponding, the spring decision pending. Màiri two years in full remission with a wisteria in its second year, four buds counted, the third-year growth coming. The foundation at its correct size, two nodes, the selective intake, the referral network — the architecture that
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