Summer 2014: Poetry
Weddings I Have Ruined
by Tanya Jarvik
by arriving with burrs in my socks, gift in my dirty knapsack, pine cones rattling in the box I wrapped with bad news by saying how many pieces of toast could have been spread with honey for the price of your diamond ring by being the one red dress in your lilac lineup, those fat crayon scrawls in the guest book, a wasp in your veil, a shrimp fork in your side when I put orchids on wrong shoulders, ordered light too bright for pictures, toppled your cake, bared my gartered thigh when I brought up the past, running late but predetermined to make it in time to shower congratulations on your future when I rained, and rained, and rained until roses, rice, confetti streamed away leaving bride, groom, and guests marooned – because you woke on that deserted aisle, sea foam at your feet and catacombs in your hair, cursing me for sailing home without you
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