Barbara Day 1

This day is yours.

Even if your mandolin 

Has long since broken.

This is your day. 

We light a candle in your name.

Put Barbara twigs into our vases. 

Your day’s today.

This advent day, 

We celebrate and 

Set your place at our table.

Bake a cake in your name. 

This is a day in advent, that

Does not speak of a coming, 

But of a having gone, of broken 

Links, unbearable hurt.

This is my Barbara day, 

Each year 

Which sometimes 

Makes me 

Wonder

If…