You'd Be Home Now

by Kathleen Glasgow

Maly kwiatek, our nana would coo at me when I was tiny. Little flower, in Polish.

If you look for grand examples of anything from me, I shall disappoint you.

“I’m made up of all my experiences up until this moment, do you understand? Things you will never know have made me who I am, right now, in this moment.

“Death happens. We need to accept that and look around and appreciate what we have and change what we don’t like.

And I can’t keep existing if I’m constantly thinking that I’m dying inside and I don’t even know it.”