We made an undulating landscape on the floor after the hard week

our bedraggled bodies propped on sofa pillows

plates of barely recognized food stuff in varying degrees of consumption

two roaming dogs attempting to lick plates clean

Around us sharp angles of squares and rectangles

mottled with yellowed photographs and meticulously crafted text blocks

that elicited occasional yelps and countless sighs

until our heads drooped but we would not arise

“This is how she found us/ the past draped about us like a cloak”