Twink's Wedding

  
 
     
 

To Celebrate the Joining of

Hortense "Twink" Van Nuys

and

Mr. Frank MacKenzie

in Holy Matrimony

this 5th day of July, nineteen-hundred and twenty-eight

  
     

My own baby sister's best friend is married , now

Time was I would have envied her.

Watching Jessie wander about from room to room I suspect she does, whatever she says

Slavery, some call it

Nothing so dramatic, I think--just a loss of everything, these sharp-edged books

the way the air cools at night and drifts in through the curtains and there is no one breathing this air but me

Marriage: a house permanently too full

 

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