This poem was first published in The Sacred Feminine: Open Skies Poetry Collection on 28th September 2021 One page amidst a forest Words...

. I married a man whose grandmother came from Ireland in disgrace. A dead lover lost at sea. I married a man whose father was an orphan....

This is one of my favourite poems and the first four lines are about my husband, I hasten to say he is not decrepit so the rest of the...