A Long Marriage
You’re redesigning Whitehall Palace now.
Taped to the walls, these six designs attest
you could have been an architect – and how!
Tempered baroque is probably your best
and grandest style. But how to monetize
this gift? Who needs a palace nowadays?
King Charles has got enough. You fantasize!
But now you fix me with a piercing gaze
that says, What about you? Have you grown rich
on sonnets? When the bills are in arrears,
will your ballades mend budgets? There’s the hitch--
and so it’s been for over fifty years:
The webs we wove, each with its own design,
can’t be unmeshed – your fantasies and mine.
Gail White, a contributing editor to Light Poetry Magazine, has been writing formal poetry against the odds for decades. Currently, she hopes everyone will buy her new light verse chapbook, Paper Cuts, from Amazon. She lives in Bayou Teche in South Louisiana in mild poetic poverty.
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