7
Heart
Louisa’s night with Morris was not touched by Rex’s demise. I would like to offer you some kind of cosmic connection between the two, such that, for example, when Rex died, Louisa and/or Morris felt a fracture in their universe. But this was not the case. At the moment the saguaro crushed Rex to death, Louisa had Morris in her arms. He had just woken and had begun to cry crankily. Louisa, roused from her own sleep, had noted the time: a little past two o’clock, and had taken Morris up from the crib and held him to her shoulder and patted his bottom rhythmically to soothe him while the formula she had put on the stove came to the proper temperature.
While Morris settled down and his crankiness began to dissipate, the front door of Louisa’s house opened and in walked her husband,
