Lost: boys and bearings

Monday, January 20, 2020

Excerpt from an Emily Dickinson poem

Gretchen: Wife. Mother. Putting one foot in front of the other, rather aimlessly, as I grieve the loss of my son Zachary who died on January 20, 2014, as a result of complications from hospital-acquired sepsis. He was 2 weeks old. Oh, and Zachary is the second child in our family to perish. B.W., our firstborn died in 2006. He was stillborn. Life can be so, so cruel. I am kept minimally functional by my husband, B, and living son, C.T.

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