Downhearted

The answer is always in the house;

always

the Cape Cod, the Conch House, the Dogtrot

the Tudor, the Mock---

Better for always having been the latter of the family's tree

---entrenched with our own depictions of the past; constant pursuit of the opal taffeta and the day she came down the stairs with it for the first time

In defense of despondence over the final Sunday evening