[Critique Group 1] Sally's June sub mission

[Sally Rosenthal]

                                LOSS

 

 

A week before my husband died,

I lost my wedding ring.

It slipped, unnoticed, from my finger 

And rolled away forever

Onto a coffee shop's parking lot,

Among apples in the produce department,

Or into wet grass at dusk. 

 

I searched to no avail

And hoped it would magically appear

Under our kitchen table,

Beneath socks in the laundry basket,

Or in the dryer's lint filter.

 

A week after I lost my wedding ring,

My husband died when a burst aneurysm

Flooded his brain with blood at breakfast.

Holding his hand in intensive care and

Signing organ donation forms, I knew

My husband, like the ring, was gone forever.

 

 

                                                Sally Rosenthal

 

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