Never to be someone’s mother, no.
But someone’s friend
—someone’s mother’s friend
to whom two girls, late and soaked-through,
come home:
Small Actors
Jameson Fitzpatrick
Jameson Fitzpatrick is the author of Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds, LLC 2020). A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in Creative Writing, she teaches at New York University.