Wedding Anniversary

dressed in chiffon hair a bun with couple loose strands solitaire around her slim neck for Anniversary dinner at their seafood place lost in a concoction of his adoring gaze, music, Merlot and blackened salmon knock on the door she answers her knees buckle down mascara runs down in rivers dressed in black, holding lilies, head hung low—there stands mom darling,lets visit his grave before dark—mom says to flooded eyes in an ashen face Written on:07/21/2016 Contest:'Two Stanzas-Two Only' by Broken Wings