MIDWINTER PURCHASE

Marcella's Feast Day, this one
at Lowe's Hardware buying carpet.
The short blue-blood marriage
in Rome, and another offer
she refuses. Better to put food
in poor people's stomachs
than money in a rich person's purse.
All this from my phone
as contract gets written.
Jerome wrote her letters
as she corrected his translations
of scripture, calmed his temper.
How we know things.
How we approach silence ourselves.

Jim Bodeen
31 January 2018

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