after Jan Gossaert’s Portrait of an Old Couple (ca. 1525-1530)So here we are,a few years shortof wizened, fitto sit dressed upfor a double portraitof a marriagethat’s lasted.               My husbandhas his preoccupationsand I’ve acquired my own —our oldest son still learningto inherit the concern,the surviving daughtersnursing their childrenas I nursed mineuntil my well-used wombturned useless, the stillborn,the... Continue Reading →