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These Are The Kinds of Things I Think About When I Think About Divorce

A late-night list from a restless mind

These are the kinds of things I think about

When I think about divorce

The blue Moroccan bowl you helped me haggle for in Fez

The dishes in the sink

Our son’s LEGO sets, labeled and stacked in plastic crates

A messy coat rack

Playgrounds in Copenhagen

Anais Mitchell in a tiny theater

A homemade coffee mug with Father of Barnaby sketched in my amateur Arabic

Piles of socks to fold

All the forms at the doctor’s office

The kite shoved in the back of our car that we flew with our boys when we had nothing else to do

The fabric of the seats on the New Jersey Transit

Rows on airplanes

My tank top with the pink thread sewn in it from the woman who did our laundry in Quito

Red Haribo gummy cherries

Shoveling the sidewalk when it snows

The Muslim call to prayer

Those tiny fish that nibbled the skin on your toes in a street market in Siem Reap

Olive oil soap

Monster chase on playground equipment on a Saturday afternoon

And that time I announced that you’d become my home

In a room full of people we barely talk to now

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