The Stolen Peonies

What I got out of women

was difficult

to assess Flossie

not you

you lived with me

many years you remember

that year

we had the magnificent

stand of peonies

how happy we were

with them

but one night

they were stolen

we shared the

loss together thinking

of nothing else for

a whole day

nothing could have

brought us closer

we had been

married ten years