The Peacock 1546

The plateful of cheese and breton crackers sits on the table between us, like an intermediary presence. We really haven't a lot left to say. He has just told me about his childhood in Bogotá, the legacy of trauma from the warring drug cartels in his childhood neighbourhood. And now I know why I have been so attracted to jesús. We re both traumatized. It is like a little lightbulb coming on between us. We have also been talking about my childhood memory of my mother´s fiery death in that carcrash where she nearly killed me. I would imagine that my Mexican mother also bonds Jesús and I with a shared sense of Latino heritage. I am surprised that the others have not returned home yet, but I have also turned off my phone and am intentionally refusing to check for messages...