AnnMarie Eldon

finally: wed

there are so many places for hiding
the unused engagement and wedding
rings: in a quasi-ephodic skirt hem for example or behind

any row of dusty unperused books: the
former would have to be unpicked carefully so
as not to pull its threads and the latter could not be

theology or prayer or spirituality or Donne so this
takes: defness, placability, strict causality
between dust and needle and mind and:

eye and fingers and strength of: character
which comes full circle round to:
God so is not: linear but:

something more akin to: forever
hefted: bending:
shedding:

arrogance:
the fear that all tears revert to: no-
thing and these failed arthritic knuckles would have:

slaved to
no ..avail