She Kept A Parrot

Daily Archives: March 29, 2012

  The Fairy Wish I May the fairies dance on your wedding cake An apology for the tooth they didn’t take As they weave a single marriage knot Of  joy and love for the tooth they forgot. II If you look for them by candlelight You may find them in the garden at night. But never tell them that eyes sparkle red Or they’ll not dance about your bed. III Send them with… Read More

These photograph were taken of each of us when we were each about twenty-one years old.  My husband died at seventy.  He would have been seventy-three on March sixteenth of this year.  I will be seventy years old on May twenty-first of this year.  Our daughter, Kelli, was forty-five years old on February fourth this year.  I cannot believe any of us are as old as we know in our heads we… Read More