I dis­card drafts after typ­ing up the revisions—a painstak­ing process I’m ful­ly aware might be reversed tomor­row. Children snatched from their schools. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is an edu­ca­tor, essay­ist, and the author of six poet­ry col­lec­tions. He is edi­tor-in-chief of The Weight Journal, the cre­ative non­fic­tion edi­tor at Porcupine Literary, and an asso­ciate edi­tor at Rise Up Review. MEH’s pub­li­ca­tions include Barren Magazine, Had, Massachusetts Review, Mayday, Mom Egg Review, Ploughshares, Stone Circle Review, Terrain, Whale Road Review, The Worcester Review, and Zone 3.