Chelsea Rathburn is the author of two poetry collections, most recently A Raft of Grief (Autumn House, 2013), and her prose has appeared in Creative Nonfiction. She lives in the mountains of North Georgia, where she directs the creative writing program at Young Harris College.
I remember my husband, when I asked once why things couldn’t be easy, the way they used to be, saying, bitterly and through clenched teeth, “It was never easy.”