I am clipped diagnoses.

Dead wife? What good is lamenting?

Runaway parent? Think of the hurt you were spared.

But at night, I cry for patients. For a boy who once wore a broad smile, now a fool in an office searching for lost mothers and wives.

I am questions.

Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University’s MFA program in fiction. Yash’s work is forthcoming or has been published in WestWard Quarterly, CaféLit, (mac)ro (mic), and Ariel Chart.