Goin' Home
Characters belong to Annie Proulx and Brokeback Mountain.
'How's ma dadday?'
'He's holding his own……but, it can't be long now……he's extra sensitive as many are near the end. One thing, he knows the time to the second, tho' his eyesight's failed and the only clock is on the wall in the next room'.
Ennis was unable to see or hear his daughter at her approach, and yet….
'Junior!'
'Dadday?'
Alma Junior entered the room but Ennis, seemingly delirious, regarded only the young man sitting in the corner – like an angel he was, eyes like sapphires, laughing.
'Been a long time cowboy'.
'I know it, rodeo', said Ennis.
'Dadday!' cried Alma Junior.
Ennis's face for so long haggard, gaunt with old age and illness, softened, was as Alma remembered him as a young man.
'Dadday!'….
At the door, but beyond any living person's knowledge, two young men departed arm in arm….. Ennis was, goin' home.