For the Best – 2011 posting

(remembering a first marriage…)

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Do you remember

silver man,

when we were two wings

flying one dream

beneath warm quilts?

But one night

I couldn’t breathe

and tore off the covers

when you couldn’t help

but throw

your pillow down.

We rolled

from the edges

of the bed

and let the feathers

settle

into the spread

of time.

Still now and then

one catches my eye

floating to the floor.

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(c) 1993, 2017  Betty Hayes Albright

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