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Excerpt from: French Braid

photo by Sylvia

“Marriages have stages. They have incarnations, almost,” Mercy explains. “You can be in a good marriage and you can be in a bad marriage, and they can both be the same one but just at different times.”

from French Braid, by Anne Tyler, 2022

Winter Through the Window in March

photo by Sylvia

at first, it is heavy winter
and then it is lightly not winter–
lasting a tiny moment, allowing the crocuses and the snowdrops
to sing their siren songs of spring,
knowing all the while—
it will be winter through the window in March again