I like my partner’s yard. It is almost waterside, and there are a bunch of birds around. Twilight is when they tweet the loudest. The river floods across my partner’s front yard once every few years.

Their chirping becomes so loud when it floods. It feels like I’m in a rain forest when I sit on my partner’s porch. We have the entire block to ourselves, except for one other house. Everyone else left after the last big flood.