What does it mean to be widowed.
To me it means absence, absence of the foot
that used to touch yours in bed.
The other day I watched a TV show and turned
toward the other in the room to comment.
But there was no other sitting there.
Most mornings, I get up thinking my husband
is already in the bathroom. He always got up
slightly before me.
And so it goes on. His absence is always with me.
But the man is not.
But most of all it means the absence of a voice
calling Sue, Sue, Sue like an echo.