Divorces are common post-Katrina – but this one is messier – it involved friendships and trust and broken hearts and love’s labor lost. <\/p>\n
Eternity was in our lips and yes,
\nBliss in our brows bent
\n………………………Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra<\/p>\n
Steve was the Antony to my Cleopatra, but he befriended a snake who used his charms to wound the whole lot of us as tight as possible and when havoc was sufficently wrecked across all lives, the snake slithered away. <\/p>\n
Today at 11:45 Steve and Rachel’s divorce was final. Hope is the hardest love we carry. <\/p>\n
Whatyagonnado?<\/p>\n
*******<\/p>\n
Hope and Love<\/p>\n
All winter
\nthe blue heron
\nslept among the horses.
\nI do not know
\nthe custom of herons,
\ndo not know
\nif the solitary habit
\nis their way,
\nor if he listened for
\nsome missing one
\nnot knowing even
\nthat was what he did
\nin the blowing
\nsounds in the dark.
\nI know that
\nhope is the hardest
\nlove we carry.
\nHe slept
\nwith his long neck
\nfolded, like a letter
\nput away.<\/p>\n
~ Jane Hirschfield ~<\/p>\n
(The Lives of the Heart, 1997)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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