February 23,

2001

Learning, finally, to stay in one place for a whole winter, without running away: what the roof of the garage is like, night after night, how the lilac branches ice and break, that the woman at the bus stop wears a skirt she either loves or hates every Friday.

But every night, before I make the last turn towards home, I think about everywhere else I could get to, if I just kept going.