Regression means he is closer to where we made him. Thin mist from his first night home from the hospital still haunts us. Sometimes I sleep in the position I was in when we made him.
It's his fourth birthday and the candles trick us again. A few balloons re-inflate from their shiny torn skins. Impossible. The mist hides nothing, leaves us. Ordinary sky closes in.
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