Yesterday
my aunt awoke to face the day with two breasts
unremarkable only to those who don't know her
they were a small comfort
a place I rested my head many a day as a child
and many a night as a newly-divorced-single-mother-of-two

Yesterday
my aunt awoke with the knowledge that this would be
the very last day she would awaken
with two small, unremarkable breasts

Yesterday, was the day of her double masectomy...