When Bon Iver is gone, I find comfort in the home that we share. His mug, polished, dangles beside mine above the sink. His boots are akimbo in the mudroom, along with an assortment of tracked-in mosses and clumps of earth. And our bed, white as a summer cloud and just as airy since we traded in the flannel sheets for cotton, retains an imperceptible warmth that will last until I hear his truck on the gravel again.

