Touch: The Journal of Healing
For Jean
by Linda K. Marshall
She loved him best
who stayed on past
the tricks
the fibs
the jests
that turned our faces red.
And when he died
just she was there
to see the glory go.
© 2009 Linda K. Marshall
Linda K. Marshall is a retired high-school English teacher, happily married for 43 years, mother of two, grandmother of three, preacher's kid, nearly life-long writer of little verses.
Issue 2, September 2009
. . . with birth as condition . . .
Dewdrop (photograph)
Lilacs in a Vase (photograph)
Editors Choice:
My Zack (photograph)
Cover Design by O.P.W. Fredericks
Cover Photo by Daniel Milbo
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