My Grandmother's Ruby Ring
Did not filter
down to me
who wanted it. I
was not as great a beauty
as my mother, one
of 8 my grandmother
birthed: 2 daughters
made the cut.
My mother in sepia
light of an old
photograph is seated
at the piano, head
bent over sheet music
as if about to play
(except her sister
was the musical one)
She's wearing
a necklace that
she and her sister
lusted for
to wear when
dressing up. Her sister
not as great a beauty
as my mother who
wears the necklace
down the front
of her dress. She
wears no smile,
no need
to beguile. Beauty
was her duty.
She did it
surpassingly
well.
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