The Picture
he keeps a picture
of his dead wife
in the top pocket
of the starch white
prison shirt he wears.
her parents,
ever crying,
often sit
on wooden pews
in the small town's church;
the smell of
candle wax
surrounding them.
as for he,
he'll keep
that snapshot
in that shirt
for another
sixteen years.
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