Neighbors
Charles Rafferty



The houseplants in her window all turned brown. But it was winter, and there wasn't any smell. It took warm weather to make us knock.

About the author:
Charles Rafferty has published poems in The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. His tenth collection of poems, The Unleashable Dog, was published by Steel Toe Books in 2014. His collection of short fiction, Saturday Night at Magellan's, was published by Fomite Press in 2013. Currently, he directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College.