millie is sleeping on one couch, alexa on the other. it’s 15:40 and no one else is home yet. cool and grey. i scared the shit out of a robin by the compost pile, and it peeped shrilly in alarm. things are at once too complicated and quite simple. the intimacy of dinner time can be stressful. megan’s sometimes mean to cecilia. cecilia’s sometimes bratty to megan. libby sometimes absorbs things and they come out later in different ways. millie said she wants to get a therapist again. i got an email from a student’s spec ed teacher letting me know the student was writing a paper for my class in which she talks about having been raped. it’s so quiet in here. i don’t know if it’s alexa or millie that’s making that quiet snoring noise. (2017)