While Preparing My Husband For Burial I Discovered Coordinates That Changed Everything

way of someone who means the specific thing they are saying rather than the general thing apologies usually contain. She had believed I knew. They had both believed I knew.

I looked at Sofia, at Thomas’s eyes looking back at me from a face he had made with someone else, and I thought about the drawing in the bin, the crayon man and the crayon girl and continue reading …