The Good Book

Runner-up

This is a photograph of my mother’s hands on top of her Bible. I took this photo on the morning of my older brother’s funeral services, on June 1, 2017, in

Van Buren, Arkansas. It was the first time

I’d been home in over ten years. My mother was sitting alone on the front porch and looking through the Bible for a specific psalm to be read during the service. The ring with the pink ice gemstone had just

arrived that morning. It was a late Mother’s Day present my brother had mailed.