UNDER THE PORCH a jar of pennies is believed to be buried. Or was it a box of rare baseball cards? The progress report—three C’s and a D. If you’re not careful, you’ll unearth a dead pet instead of that bottle of Jim Beam. Just before dinner, it gets crowded down there, all of us digging for what’s missing.
[echolocation] [love letters] [a dirty dirty magazine] [your mother, whose cooking leaves something to be desired] [missing] [listen] [the hiss of the snake]