“At 79, My Mother Decides to Plant Trees” | Fourth Genre (2021)

They loom over us like sequoias, our parents. In my first holy communion photos, they flank me, grave and unsmiling in formal black clothes—my father’s wool suit, my mother’s boucle skirt, long gloves, and short jacket.

“At 79, My Mother Decides to Plant Trees.” Fourth Genre. 23.1 (2021): 171-180. [link]