Before my father needed an oxygen machine to breathe he would often sit on the back porch smoking on summer nights and I would join him to talk about music or the moon as the sun went down and the cicadas rattled in the willow trees
If we sat there long enough darkness would fill the backyard until our bodies disappeared and the orange glow of his cigarette as he inhaled became all that I could see of him as if his life were only that burning
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