They took her by ambulance. The neighbor called and told me. Cleaning out her house was the closest I came to “Goodbye.”

A pack of Marlboros, half-smoked. A jug of milk. Dishes she didn’t wash. Her fridge had a note: Give Terri her book back.

I don’t know a Terri.

Jennifer Courtney has been published online at Postcard Poems and Prose, Page & Spine, Black Heart Magazine, and elsewhere. She has found her way into several print anthologies.