She Was a Lovely Bride

amidst musty furniture and splintering rafters there it hung draped across the manikin so gracefully elegant and beautiful white and lacy with its gleaming pearls and lingering train its a gown for a seraph glowing luminously in the dim light of the loft so glamorous almost perfect stunning like my mother bold as my father embodying love and devotion memories and passion inhibits a model's splendor grants me a sense of ecstasy my mother's wedding dress