"Additional Information" "He liked
to drive, long trips and Slim Jims, drive-thru windows,
and Diet Dr Pepper.
She's lucky she doesn't have to drive far to visit.
So many have to drive so far.
A line of cars, early as 5:00 AM, she feels guilty.
She feels burdened, her whole day gone.
On the radio, a story about the Letcher County prison,
and how it's been blocked by locals.
No one mentions it's because the money is going to detention
centers at the border.
She fears she's going numb.
A dead vulture on the side of the road,
how weird to see a dead thing that is supposed
to eat the dead things.
Who will come to eat the vulture?
Then she sees him.
Her pulse speeds and slows thinner.
He is lit up from behind, a shadow.
What hurts is not how he has changed.
How he is the same, what's left of light
around his corners, how he asks about the car, her driving, how
he worries for her--
that's what breaks in her, a black wing coming out
of her mouth."