![By Viviane Sassen](https://theoffingmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/StockSnap_8BPOCRWPZS-scaled.jpeg)
Yesterday, I found you
in the bathroom eating apples
—it sounded like a wolf
crushing bones. I helped you
up and gnawed
what was left to the core.
I wondered if our son could hear
the rain drumming on the roof
or your heart thumping next door.