Thanks, Catherine. I find the same problems you do when writing poems that
seem personal. This poem is not autobiographical though. I have not "found
another." I wrote about widowhood years before I became one. And I have
written many things that seem personal but have nothing to do with me at all.
Readers tend to think the speaker is always the poet; and of course "it ain't
necessarily so." I probably wouldn't publish this poem anyway. Thanks for your
comments. Sue
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