at 7:26

When you close the door when you leave at 7:26 I wonder I wonder where you go where do you go when you button your coat after the kiss good-bye every day at 7:26 I wonder I know the answer should be work that’s where people go at 7:26 and yet there was this time just once I’ve been scared to look again you forgot your scarf you never forget your scarf and so I opened the door opened it it couldn’t have been long not long at all between you closing the door and me opening it no

I don’t think so not even 7: 2 7 I don’t think I don’t think I don’t think I opened the door and you weren’t you weren’t where were I don’t I you weren’t there I looked where you should be and you weren’t I looked up the street and down up and down but no you weren’t no where do you I was just standing see with your scarf like this but you people don’t just they don’t just and yet with the door open like that with it open like that and you I know how it sounds I know I know so little but but can we I just want to know where you go when you close the door at 7:26 do you go somewhere or do you just what’s the word when you vanish disappear cease to be is that what happens at 7:26?

K.A. Nielsen (she/they) is a U.S. writer living in Sweden. Their work has appeared in Milk Candy Review, Janus Literary, Fusion Fragment, Sledgehammer Lit, voidspace, the Bullshit Lit Anthology, and elsewhere. They are on the internet: www.kanielsen.net and @_kanielsen_.