Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Three Fingers

They are ready to close
his coffin.     She raises

her hand,
not yet.

A step forward, head tipped right
she gazes at him

the last time
in fifty-four years,

her life. Three fingers
to her lips, she presses in

grief
as if she could hold it,

as if that
could contain it.

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