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

who had looked at a map with any frequency.

Coordinates.

I stepped back from him. My hand was still raised where it had been touching his hair, suspended there for a moment before I brought it down to my side.

Thomas did not have tattoos. This was not a secret I had been keeping from myself. I knew his body the way you know a landscape you have lived continue reading …