WEDDING RING WALTZ
Elisavietta Ritchie
The ring barely slips over
my swollen third-finger joint (broke
on a long-ago boat), slides round
the thin inside inch of my finger.
Mum's wedding ring. I wear hers
because my bridegroom does not
believe in symbols, or lacked
time to shop, or the cash.
But then, aren't we regardless
always more tied to our mothers
than to whatever spouses....This could
spring into a psychological novel,
dangerous, concentric, drag on
for tomes. Therefore best I wind up
the topic in sixteen lines, go
soap my hands, wrest off the ring.
