WHAT HE ERASED
He brought a cutting from it to the hospital, in a small pot, and set it on the windowsill without explanation, and I understood it for what it was the kind of gift that didn't need a card.
And the studio, on ordinary Tuesday mornings, held all of it: two small people in the corner, sunlight falling across the worktable at the angle I'd fought for fifteen years ago, sketches going up on a wall that had never held anyone else's work, and somewhere underneath all of it, the quiet, steady fact of two people who had spent ten years in the same house, looking at each other from the wrong distance, finally slowly, carefully, in a shape neither of them had built before getting it right.
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