The picture shows Jessica after she was returned from surgery, her organs harvested. I had to trim the photo because I can not bear the look of distress on Juliet's face. But the donation of both kidneys, her liver, her pancreas, and her heart valves in 1995 saved five lives, and all of the recipients were still alive when I checked on her 21st anniversary. Both corneas were used (they do not last as long, but gave sight for several years before they too needed replacement. Please talk about this gift with your loved ones while you are alive. It is not the time for tough decisions in such situations.

Should you encounter someone who has lost someone so dear to them, please avoid platitudes like "She's in better place now" or "Time heals all wounds". After 29 years I still grieve for the daughter who never made it to 8. Until you are in such a situation, you truly have no idea. Give practical help, and listen to them, offering only your love and your presence. While we get better at dealing with our grief and our memories, and may appear to have "gotten over it", we live with a life sentence.

I wrote a story during organ donation week in 2016 which was run on the Open Drum, a part of the ABC, Australia's national broadcaster. It was Jessica's 21st anniversary.

Last year I edited the text for a vignette haibun contest, a form I had never tried. I chose to break the text with 4 haiku, rather than just the essential one. However I have little skill with haiku, and the text does not fit the vignette category. So I put it aside for another time.

Other than a tiny bit of editing to the main text, the main change is that I scrapped the haiku. Instead, each has been replaced by the stanzas of an English sonnet, a form where at least I have some skills. Hopefully the whole thing holds together.