Sunday, March 31, 2013

No more memories to be made

NORMA CROWLEY BOUDREAU
April 23, 1924-March  31, 2013


My father fell in love with my step-mom
when they were both married to other people.
She swirled across the dance floor in a 
white grown embroidered with violets
and into his arms.

They never had his children or her children.
"We have our children," she always said in
a tone that let everyone know 
there was no alternative.

When she visits,
we play cards.
She wipes me out
no dainty widow lady, she.
We go to restaurants,
laugh a lot, 
share memories of my Dad
and build new ones of our own.




1 comment:

Anonymous said...


Rest in Peace, Norma.
I KNOW there are gin games in Heaven.
See you at the table.

Suzie