- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Remembrance
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A true red-letter day, her coming out –
A new experience. The ballroom shone
Like sun on polished glass; her eyes were wide
But hardly wide enough. The dancing passed
Before she'd realized; her beaux danced by
And all the night had left her was a head
Too full of images, conflicting, vague
But very rosy feelings and her card
For memory. And then the rumbling came
Along the open road, and the young men
That she had danced with went. The brightest eyes
Went blank in Dachau, and about the rest
There was no news. Determined to forget
She hid the card and married. It was not
Too bad a marriage; neither of them would
Lay any claim upon the other. So they died
And when she had been buried someone found
Her card inside a book and wondered why
She should have kept the thing so long and who
Those faded names had been – and then he tore
The thing in two and gave it thought no more.
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