Desiree and I have discussed everything.
She wants to live where sun
showers sweep rain across big country.
She wants five-alarm sunrises and perfectly symmetrical snowflakes melting
against the palm of her hand. She wants to give
names to deer bedded down in her yard.
She wants to see the places where queen’s cup and huckleberries share the crosshatch
light of conifer forest understories.
As good fortune has it, my
corner of the Rocky Mountains is just the place for all of that.
We filed our first paperwork to
bring Desiree here on a visa in December of 2019. Covid-19 froze the process solidly. Only now, in the early days of 2022, are visas
once again getting pushed through the U.S. Embassy in Manila. We think Desiree’s visa packet may see
daylight within a few weeks.
If this is so, she will be here
before the first tufted phlox blossoms outside my door. And then sunrise and all the rest.
—Mitchell Hegman
No comments:
Post a Comment