In Memoriam

“Footprints in the Sand” is my favorite poem. This work, which is usually attributed to Mary Stevenson from sometime in the late 1930s, has always held a special place for me. It once hung beside the stairwell of my grandparents’ house, hung by a string nailed to the wall with one spindly stud, and the frame marking a clean square on the dusty floral wallpaper whenever I took it down to read. But even though the house has moved on and the poem in its dusty frame has been boxed away to...