Friday by Ronald Moran

is the prelude for a widow's weekend of long,
                         quiet days,
like Saturday, with couples coupling all day
                         in or out

of the suburbs, holding hands on walks around
                         the block
in warm weather, or planting, harvesting, raking,
                         bagging,

or just sharing the same air indoors on a couch,
                         like Sunday,
sitting alone in a pew, still grieving the loss
                         of her spouse,

or maybe she's saving a place for someone
                         to share
a hymnal, to lean easily against a shoulder
                         again.   



Ronald Moran has poems in current or forthcoming issues of Asheville Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Tar River Poetry. In March he was inducted into Clemson University’s CAAH Hall of Fame.