You’re sitting on a chair in your hallway. The chair is made of wood and painted white. No one ever sits in it. Except for you, today. You can’t remember why it’s there. It was supposed to take its place at the kitchen table with all the other white wooden chairs. It sticks out here. It’s always in the way. You should move it. Instead, you’re thinking about how the chickadees will be out soon. You’re thinking about how you need to call your mother. You sit like you’re waiting for something. You’re thinking about what it would be like to be a dandelion, a field of dandelions. What it would be like to be that yellow. You turn your head and you hear the knocking again. It’s far away until it isn’t. Until the knocking is in every wooden thing in your house. It’s in the walls. It’s under your feet. It’s in your chair. Pain is a thing that knocks. When no one answers, it lets itself in. Stays a while. You sit in that chair wishing the hallway had windows. How nice it’d be to see the sky.