The Room My Father Built
That is where his drawings live.
About four hundred sheets, rolled, in tubes, going back to 1968.
The deeds to that house.
My mother’s letters from before they married.
A shoebox with my school reports in it, which I did not know about until 2019 and which undid me for a while.
He died in 2019.
Pancreatic, seven weeks, at seventy-three.
He left me the house.