An Old Man Reclines

An elderly man's wife dies. You have seen it before, you can tell what will happen next. He will recline in the home that she wove around him. Some warmth remains to pad carpet slippers and housecoats. The cat will always be the shadow of her hand. He is a watcher not at the funeral or the cemetery but from the other side of a bed. He arranges things then puts them back the way they were. He places sepia moments back into a shoe box that she has provided.