they bow before a curtain
holding hands, such young shy smiles
my parents, newly engaged
smiling, bashful
it’s 1948, a war is over
another is yet to begin
Pediatrician Kelley White has worked in inner city Philadelphia and rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Rattle and JAMA. Her most recent collection is NO. HOPE STREET (Kelsay Books). She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant.
