The days were diminishing, but they always are. She took out a pair of kitchen scissors and cut the rest off her head. She pulled long strands of brown hair off her furniture, a nuisance. The clock in her kitchen read, as it has for many years now, 9:42. She lived on an island formed 20,000 years ago by a moving wall of ice. In February 2022, it had been four months since her diagnosis, 15 since her husband was helicoptered to a hospital, two years since she watched her mother die. Silence “is the sound of the earth.” Silence “does not need you to interrupt it.” Interrupting the silence is something one must justify, ideally by becoming the person who can write the book worthy of breaking it. To speak into silence is something very dramatic” is something Jorie Graham is given to say, and it is a statement that seems true when she in particular says it.
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