The Word On Cheese Reese Hirota

The Word On Cheese

Reese Hirota

In Unrealistic Future Tense In Unrealistic Future Tense This is the work, my dear. This is the bit we do wrong, every year. Guessing incorrectly again. My turn to cook. Your turn to light the fire.

We are making for ourselves a cult of suffering and barring the door. Then we are remaking the cabin with windows. With hinges this time. I consider your application to replace the floorboards. You clean the bathroom sink.

I knew I loved you when you loaded the dishwasher wrong and I told you so. I had never done that before. You knew you loved me when.

I am emptying our bowl of sorrow. I am filling it up again. You are living for tomorrow as well as today. And for this moment where you stroke the back of your hand across my cheek. I am living for that too. I am waiting for the moment you turn to tell me what color we’re staining the wood. Isn’t that lovely. Isn’t that something else.

You have not reloaded the dishwasher so I am doing it. I have not gone to the grocery store so you have taken our car to do the shopping. You are gone. I am not waiting for you to return. I am telling you to come back anyway.

Izzy Kalodner