<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=582078" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Water Tender</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The river <br>has not entered the house yet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pack framed photographs: <br>weddings, babies, <br>dead uncles, and grandparents, <br>set aside ceramic eggs, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">balanced on wooden stands, <br>to reach the wedding cake couple, <br>equidistant between two photographs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My mother, <br>in her borrowed wedding dress, <br>holding a bouquet of artificial flowers, <br>whiter than Aunt Rose Mary's silk skirt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My father, <br>in his Navy uniform, bearing<br>the insignia of a Water Tender, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">his cap worn tilted to the right.<br>Standing midpoint, <br>the wedding cake couple<br>represents their union.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flesh colored paint overlaps<br>the neckline of the bride, <br>executed too quickly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The groom's black top-hat<br>is worn, a wedding ring shape<br>encircles the edge of the crown.<br>My mother is dead, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">my father has remarried. He's left<br>behind the photographs, the eggs, <br>the wedding cake couple.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The river enters an open door.<br>I salvage what I can.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Agnes+Dalrymple">Mary Agnes Dalrymple</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=582078" data-title="Water Tender de Mary Agnes Dalrymple" data-description="The river has not entered the house yet. I pack framed photographs: weddings, babies, dead uncles, and grandparents, set aside ceramic eggs, balanced on wooden stands, to reach the wedding cake couple, equidistant between two photographs...."></div> </div> </div>

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