Somewhere Else

The last time we ever spoke Missouri suburbs filled with snow and snowfall blotted out the oak beyond your buried patio. You’d never see another spring. Falls . . . confusion . . . vertigo . . .  Familiar landmarks vanishing, you stood up from your wheelchair. Where did you think you were going? Across the Firth of Forth to Fife, to a croft in Pittenweem—why there, a place that you would never see? Though stranded, at the end of life, you still had somewhere else to be.

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