NaPoWriMo 2026 day 29
After (After Turning the Clocks Back by Jennifer Moxley ) I make a pallet bed of 12 milk crates, Cuddle with my giant yellow lab Listen to the traffic on the highway ignore the rumble of my stomach A cockroach scrambles up the wall I squeeze my eyes closed, remember squeezing into a car with too many friends at lunch to go smoke and buy day old pastries to eat lunch in the park. Time ticked with the bend of my old man’s back, crooked by years of heavy work and falling out of a deer stand and I knew life was never going to be easier