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Ring by Jody Stoddard, Craftsbury, Vermont I lost my wedding ring in the pigpen Wednesday afternoon. Young sow straining on piglets, in trouble, and birth-juices sliming my reaching hand made my ring slippery too. After the ninth neonatal noticed my knuckles… No ring. Not in the sow, either. Somewhere in the hundred square feet of deep chopped hay, it’s fallen. “Are we still married?” husband has to ask. Well. What is a wedding ring, but a bit of glint and sparkle? Ten years and more of love and labor and worry rests in my ring, shines in its smooth setting of small stones, streamlined so I can wear it whatever my wedded work. pearls before swine lost in the line of duty decade dropped like dung I bide three days barehanded, while eternal maternal magic binds the sow to her brood. Stressed too soon, sows reject (or ingest) piglets; and that trumps ring-longing. Farmers bow to their beasts. Saturday, and I want forevermore back on my finger! Step aside, sow, and let me seek without cease. Bend for a handful of hay, shake it and sift it and sigh, advance and repeat. Pessimistic friends and hours sidle past, scoffing. Still I search. Rumplestiltskinian refuse rises behind me. Sow, suspicious, flops broadside smack down on my search pattern. Her quarter-ton nurses nine squealers. My half-hearted nudge budges nobody. Pause for reflection. Reflection—late lowering light dances off her dewclaw—there lies my ring! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Haiku Society of America
Touchdown by Diana Webb, Leatherhead, England I look out over a suburban garden-scape, each hedge like a rough cut slice of cake with its glisten of thick white icing. Soon here and there a window shines out lemon against the paler light of snow. Softly again the fl akes begin to fall. buddleia twigs point, sway a little, becoming witches’ fi ngers casting the spell of the season deeper; down through this almost motionless world to the day I turned sixteen, kept home by the freeze as now. In quest of a magic garment to keep me snug, my mother busy for days with a close-ribbed pattern and a yarn of my choice called “moonstone.” She brought it up to my room to surprise me with the gift of its swift completion. Too tight for me now, kept safe in a plastic bag, I treasure it as memento of her skill with needles, the glow of our wintry isolation. soundlessly settling in the dark moths Photograph by Dru Phillipou, Taos, New Mexico It is an old gloss photograph, the two of us sitting on Tetilla Peak, smiling at the camera. An image of the perfect couple: their future together clear. The good times—lunch among the scrub oak overlooking the meadow, his hand on my shoulder, the new neon sunglasses, and the rain jackets billowing blue and purple in the wind. All this has faded now, turning nearly blank. cutting fl owers the sap runs into my hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frogpond 34:3 53
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