A Walk in the Woods

In this moving account of loss, a boy takes a walk in the woods and makes a discovery that changes his understanding of his father.

A week after the funeral
I stare in the morning mirror,
angry that my father’s eyes
stare back at me.

Confused and distraught after the death of his father, a boy opens an envelope he left behind and is surprised to find a map of the woods beyond their house, with one spot marked in bright red. But why? The woods had been something they shared together, why would his father want him to go alone? 

Slowly, his mind settles as he sets off through the spaces he once explored with his dad, passing familiar beech and black oak trees,… Keep Reading