sunday morning news

Yesterday on a TV news loop, a single-engine Cessna crashes on a hillside, killing three. An SUV jumps the curb and plows into a sandwich shop – eight injured, one fatally. A neighborhood is evacuated because of a toxic leak. A husband shoots dead his wife’s eighth-grade lover. No space between these stories, no air between the wreckage, shattered glass, police tape, blood. Just a single beaming strand of mayhem. But I noticed a curious little thread on the end of it. So I pulled, and the whole ribbon came loose in my hands. I fashioned it into a bow and tied it in my daughter's hair. Then went down to the basement and didn’t come up til the next day.