THE SOMEWHERE IN-BETWEEN
THE SOMEWHERE IN-BETWEEN
2120 Hurlbut.
My mother lived here with her seven siblings.
Just over a mile from my current home in Detroit.
She didn't live in one of the three homes in the picture,
she lived in what is now an empty space,
the somewhere in-between.
My phone has a memory of this,
as if her home were still there,
but there is nothing but land.
"We were hard on homes,"
my aunt tells me one day on the phone.
"Most of them are gone."