09/01/2026
Juno oh Juno, your healing’s so slow.
We promise you are safe and will be forevermore.
We promise you the love we give you will not be pulled out from under you, upheaving your entire world.
Juno, we are committed.
Juno, this is a beginning, not an end.
We are grateful you are eating, albeit solely from Silja’s hand. We don’t know why you’d rather starve than eat from a bowl; we shudder to think why this might be.
We are sorry you are still so afraid. We wish you’d come out of your crate and join us. But we have all the time in the world, and so do you.
Juno, we did surgery to repair your hip but then your body absorbed the bone beneath the plate. Juno, your body does not need to do this. We’ve got you. We swear it.
Just let us in.