Waltzing with Widow’s tears – Sandra Lindow

We                                                               who
were soul mates in so        many ways could not
learn to waltz                              together.
That formal                             fragile fitting
of body                into body
could not be mastered.
Now I bend
to waltz
with
Widow’s Tears,
named
for
their
unplanned
blooms,
the
irrevocable
division
of the
leaves
separ-
ating
flower
from
flower.

Sandra Lindow lives on a hilltop in Menomonie, Wisconsin.  She teaches, writes, edits, and competes with varmints and carapaced munchers for the pleasure and sustenance of her vegetables and flowers. She has seven collections of poetry.  More can be found out about her at http://www.wfop.org/member-pages/#/sandra-lindow/