Stuart Bartow

Migration

My sister's body, heroin overdosed, had been found in an abandoned house. A couple days after the funeral I was driving my 15 year-old niece to her friend's house when she asked me if I thought her mother would go to hell. No, I replied, she'll go to heaven, but she'll have to wait in line for a long time.

a wobbly V of geese
flying
in the wrong direction