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A daisy chain for Nina (Free verse) by Caducus

From Nina's hands my face turned to waves and when she kissed me, I was seven and ancient. Stuart Barr spat at her And I did nothing except wipe his hate from her lips which loved me. In the summer of 82 she made me a daisy chain. We married by the swamp and I carved our names on conifer. In the winter of 82 Nina wore a headscarf, Stuart Barr spat at her then he cried and went home. In the summer of 83 I returned to the swamp a widow, kneeled by our altar of conifer kissing the daisy chain she made me laying mine next to it by her favourite sweets.

zodiac 22-Nov-05/12:50 AM
Do you know the story? If not, Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall were both famous poets (Jane probably the more famous) and husband and wife. Jane died in 1995 after a year-and-a-half-long battle with leukemia. For more online, check out this UVA speech from about 2 years ago:

http://www.virginia.edu/uvanewsmakers/newsmakers/hall.html




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