Time of Death
by Elizabeth Ferry
Elizabeth Ferry is an anthropologist and teacher living in Brookline, MA. Her poems, flash fiction and flash nonfiction have been published in Salamander Magazine, Allegro Contemporary Poetry, Third Wednesday, Flash Fiction Magazine, RumbleFish, and Anthropology and Humanism.
I combed her hair.
I turned her over.
I said, “Stephen, come here.”
Afterwards, they opened the window
and offered us cups of tea.
There were a lot of things to sign.