Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

“You need demarcation.""Demarcation?" I asked."It means a clear separation betwe…”

“She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full …”

“I would have thought this would make me feel better, for once getting to be the…”

“It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for b…”