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wedding lost
And she sees herself in the
passenger seat at night, her fiance
beside her, and the lights seem
all too bright, and the rain seems
all too loud, like the thunder of
soldiers running across a field to
war, swept with the drunken feeling
of patriotism, charging toward their
unknown enemy. And so it happened
that night, the lights got brighter,
the car started to spin, and then
she started to dream.
And she sees herself at the
end of the church, the bridesmaids
have just walked down the
aisle, the music changes for her.
She feels swept with the euphoria
of love, and she begins to walk,
but she falls, the bouquet falling
from her hand. And in slow motion,
white roses and lilies
scatter along the aisle. And she
looks up, and the groom is gone,
and the ground is the ashes
of the house they bought together
after they were married. She
sits up, and she’s at the desk at the
bank, trying to get the loan for the
house. His job is secure, we’re young,
nothing could go wrong. Good thing
he wore the blue tie to the bank, and
not the red one. And she sees herself
waking up from sleep, the oxygen
pipe still under her nose, her husband
there, tie in hand, asking if she’d like
to hold their baby. But she
could have sworn she heard the
baby stop crying. And she panics.
And then she wakes up, her head is bobbing,
but now she’s back, back at the
hospital, looking at the tubes running
out of her fiance’s arm.