Elisa’s Reviews > Jesus’ Son > Status Update

The road we were lost on cut straight through the middle of the world. It was still daytime, but the sun had no more power than an ornament or a sponge.

After a while you forget it’s summer. You don’t remember what the morning is

a bloodless, waterlogged beauty

Looking at her I thought of going out in the fields with my wife back when we were so in love we didn’t know what it was

My wife was different than she used to be, and we had a six-month-old baby I was afraid of, a little son.

We’d developed a dangerous cynical camaraderie

I knew every raindrop by its name