Apophatic gift

New Moon in Cancer, Princess of Wands

Life happened on the surface as life happens on the surface.

I finished chemo and started radiation. I was sick and I wasn’t. The baby slept and she didn’t. She learned to sit up, laugh, scream for reasons other than no milk or fear of annihilation. She screamed at her brother for biting her toe. She screamed when her brother was not close enough, when …