The Sailor's Wife
Her velvet Dutch jacket sapphire as the North Sea does not soften the news. She is stoic for him who delivers letters to wives whose husbands perish at sea in the Anglo-Dutch War. She gently turns the mirror face down, unties her linen cap, allows a cluster of tears and russet curls to fall freely. The tavern maids grudgingly serve the English messenger tankards of ale. The Dutchmen sneer and taunt while he seeks to drown what the sea dispatches. Rebecca Weigold Rebecca Weigold's poems have appeared in Black River Review, Perceptions, Up Against the Wall, Mother, and other publications. In 1987, she founded/published The Cincinnati Poets' Collective, an annual poetry journal which featured the work of poets for a decade.
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