08 | September | 2026 | MY ENDURING BONES

For RDP Monday: DEADFALL

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Riverside Memorial Park in Fox Lake, Wisconsin
2018

The first time I visited this cemetery in Fox Lake, Wisconsin in 2018 a storm had hit and there was deadfall in the cemetery.

A few of the gravestones had been damaged, but not as many as you’d think because there were a few old trees around the grounds.

This is what struck me: I live in Washington state, so I am no stranger to the sound of trees falling over, or having their branches snapped off and tossed around in a windstorm. Do you know what it sounds like? Sometimes it sounds exactly like breaking bones. It must have been a bit unnerving to have heard this going on in a cemetery.

I’m sorry I missed it.