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Vera Kilgore Heilig: Her Poetry Lives (2017) H. Morris Williams, Marie Law Haire

Placebo

I’ll forgive just about any fault in my man

And ignore any foible as long as he can
Make me feel that I haven’t quite lost my allure.

For the middle-age blues there’s no nostrum as sure
As the tonic injection of small flatteries

That can do me more good than a corps of M.D.’s.

Incident

I can remember that the night was dusted over with fine sifted gold
And time was held suspended in a muted ecstasy.

I can remember that your love was sweet
With the heady sweetness of wild honey warmed by the sun.

I can remember that the noiseless wind that blew my hair against

Your cheek
Was weighted with delirious fragrance

And earth was balanced crazily on dizzy heights.

If it had toppled suddenly, we two would not have noticed it
Or cared.

Discordant Note

Their almost perfect wedding had for me one tiny flaw

The words that made them man and wife made me a mother in law

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