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Wedding Dress, 1989 and 2019 KIRSTEN MacQUARRIE

Kirsten MacQuarrie

Wedding Dress, 1989 and 2019

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Pearl buttons at my wrists, Lace cuffs long frayed by handshake lines. Satin shattered, skirt hem in tatters, From first night dancing until dawn. Yellowed ivory endangered, Sun-bleached and faded from the years. In ribbon curls, frail petals blossom Their time-worn tendrils wrap my waist. ‘So, does it suit me?’ I twirl and laugh, Scatter the floor with silken leaves. ‘You look like I did,’ my mother says, Raising her thin veil from my face.

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