After We Laid My Daughter To Rest, My Son-in-law Told Me I Had 60 Days To Leave

The drawings were fast and full of life, like she had been trying to capture days before they ran past her.

Under one sketch of the backyard, she had written a single line.

Plant the blue delphiniums this spring, even if I can’t see them.

I closed the book, leaned forward, and let my head rest on my hands the way a man sits when his heart has two gears continue reading …