the harvest of romeo

life and death and terra incognita

He was named Romeo, despite my protests, by two of our daughters. Somehow, he kept the name, even when one daughter left to live in another town and the other daughter left to live on in another realm. He remained Romeo. 

Romeo, born into a frozen world and left on the snow by a disinterested mother. Romeo, scooped up in my husband’s arms and brought int…