Crossword-Solution: DUSTIN 6 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

I haven’t been able to pray with the same unquestioned simplicity of hope since Dustin passed. My childhood ended the day my brother died. The naive hope that a miracle would save him, that he would one day walk, that a disease was a blessing in my family — that hope died with him.

My mom’s smile is genuine, A lilac beaming In the presence of her Sun. Indentions in the sand prove Time’s linear progression, Her hair yet unblighted, Carrying midnight’s consistency. Clear tracks fading as the Movement slips further In the past. Cheekbones High, soft, In summer’s hue, Hopeful. Each step’s unknown impact, A future looking back. My father’s strength: One whose Life is in his arms. Squinting past the camera, He rests upon a rock Like caramel corn half eaten, J…

The birds sang in the dustin an elaborate weave, ambiguous, deafening, prey to existencepoor passions lost between the modestsummits of groves of mulberry and elder; and I, like them, in secluded placesreserved for the lost and pure, would wait for evening to fall, for the silent smells of fireand joyous misery to fill the air, for the Angelus bell to toll, veiledin the new peasant mysteryfulfilled in the ancient mystery.