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Laura Grace Weldon

Poem of the Day (04-30-2018)

April 30, 2018 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

To celebrate National Poetry Month, The Poetry Box is sharing a Poem-of-the-Day, selected from various anthologies and individual poet collections that we have published over the years.

National Poetry Month, 2018 - Poem of the Day at The Poetry Box

Please enjoy today’s selection: “The Wider Rim” by Laura Grace Weldon, which appears in The Poeming Pigeon: Love Poems:

The Wider Rim

After dinner she untied her apron,
then she and my father danced
across scuffed linoleum
between table, sink, and stove.

Dressing for church meetings
and neighborhood parties my mother
wore a girdle, clip-on earrings, polyester dress.
My father wore the width of tie
and length of sideburns other men wore.

Bridge club meant sitting
at vinyl-covered card tables,
no conversation allowed during a hand.
Cups clinked against saucers, forks tapped on plates
almost as silently, afterwards.

As their days now slide
toward the funnel’s neck,
I see the wider rim.

My father tells my mother to hang on,
put your right foot here,
slide the walker,
put your other foot there.
Head hunched, she stops, her eyes
send a letter only he deciphers.

They traverse a slow path
chair to bathroom, bathroom to chair,
shuffling in sync. He says,
See, now you’re dancing Honey.


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Filed Under: National Poetry Month, Poem of the Day 2018 Tagged With: Laura Grace Weldon, Love Poems, National Poetry Month, poem-of-the-day

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