Hi Sue. Haven't seen the first draft or other comments but this is so
meaningful for me, the time of year is significant with dead things the old
bones and a kind of rebirthing like nature something eternal in all this.
Waiting for blossoming and fruiition. Like the opening lines. Bw sally J


>From: Sue Scalf <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: January Wedding (any better, Christina?)
>Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 07:42:38 EDT
>
>January Wedding
>
>Upon a stone
>her name is carved
>next to his, but incomplete.
>She is waiting
>for her date after the hyphen.
>What lives  is memory, vivid, real
>and envy for the blindly unknowing.
>
>Old habits return--
>who cares now--
>or if a picture hangs
>crooked on a wall?
>Until she meets another,
>and they come together
>like two skeletons
>with a rattle of bones.
>
>They smile, they touch, grateful
>for the space they fill together.
>The years wait like a book
>unread though they know
>the ending.
>
>Sue Scalf

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