The Critical Mom Posts Another Poem

 The April poetry marathon continues: here's a recent one: 

The Shoebox

It’s labeled Ankle Strap Sandal: Giraudon

Now filled with “Shoebox Greetings,”

(A Tiny Division of Hallmark)

Cards you sent me in 1991

When some shrink was saying,

Forget this man, finish grad school.

I order each one

By postal cancellation. They all

Begin with “my dear” and end

With “Love,” but

It was only sheer luck— you would say God

That the walls fell, that you came to me,

That we married, had this life,

The Shoebox Greetings, the photos,

The children, wall around me, hold

Me together now that you

Exist in memory only.