Words for Doris Pigeon

(A Quaker died aged ninety-two)

'...watching witless birds dawdle sun baubles on the lawn...' | Photo: Kasia Nowak / flickr CC.

I’ve no idea, dear Doris, what love
required of you. Though your name
this morn was mentioned in Meeting.
Like a light, blown skyward.
The ash of a woman on her way.

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