A simple cut on the hand complicates. Damaged nerves leave a trail of electric tingles and numb patches that will never come back to life. A particular site, painful when pressured, moves specific activities out of reach. Regular and extensive exercises are required to prevent tendons from sticking and digits from stiffening. The body’s ability to regenerate is awe-producing. Even then, some degree of woundedness is permanent. I suppose the same can be said of the heart. Smal

You blew in on the wind of an early spring with a hint of new life in your step. In a seamless motion we punctuated an eight-year-old sentence. And I realized your name must have been written within me before I shattered because I could feel your embers linger in the remnants. But many the hues of respect and admiration you painted on her face awakened a memory of the missing portrait he drew of me. I closed my eyes to prevent the tear, and you were gone. Naturally, I returne