worse.
Cruelty at least requires a person to recognize that something matters before deciding to hurt it.
Kyle simply did not understand that anything important had happened.
He could see flowers.
He couldn’t see the garden.
Not the real one.
He couldn’t see Roy spending an entire Saturday in 1997 moving dirt.
He couldn’t see forty-one anniversaries.
He couldn’t see the Saturday morning in 2011 when my husband never came back inside.
He saw flowers.
Replaceable flowers.
Across the street, my neighbor Janet stood on her porch.
She had witnessed
