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Titan and Rhea, moons of Saturn, photo taken by NASA's
Cassini spacecraft from a distance of 713,300 miles.
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at the top of the field
where the blackberries ripen and fall,
where the dogwood blooms, and the lights
I have strung are stars on the hill.
With her then,
at the edge of the woods
where the hideout she built of softening rails
sinks into the moss and the ferns.
With her then,
in the flow of the spring
running muscled and cold over stones
where she touched crayfish, earth on her cheek.
With her then,
downstream,
where the dog drinks,
broadcast my grayish-white dust.
The death of a child is a trauma that never goes away.
—Amanda Bestor-Siegal, The Threepenny Review
