sandalwood poem #20
it was the marriage day
some forty-seven years now
and out beyond my window
an amazement of christmas snow
cottonwood tree sudden with frost
I remember when we left the church
our morning hesitant with snowflakes
and some of them caught in her hair
the dark innocence of her hair
© John Knoepfle 1978, 2004
This article appears in Sep 23-29, 2004.
