No Gifts
No gifts or cards to buy
now she's gone.
Twice a year –
birthday and Christmas –
would be the frequency
of thinking, choosing,
purchasing, sending.
She was a broken sparrow,
shrunk from a woman.
When I helped to bear
the coffin to the catafalque,
there was hardly weight at all.
At home the cards, the gifts,
are stored somewhere.
He will find them when
he can bring himself
to look through her effects –
gifts and cards,
tiny things that were sent
to a woman who became a sparrow.
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