Stanza Is the Italian Word for Room
May 2015
(on benedict’s retirement, how i learned to stop worrying and love the catholic church)
It is so holy to be old.
(Vires meas ingravescente aetate non iam aptas esse.)
My grandma in her white carpet stanza
refuses to install track lighting (it’s tacky)
to highlight the glitter in her dying eyes.
Opa shared his final stanza with two…