Poet’s Corner – Niagara

Helen Bournas-Ney celebrates National Poetry Month!

There was once a box and on it green cool water 
falling, a happy housewife, everything green as spring
it promised…makes ironing a breeze. Simple as 1-2-3

Niagara Instant Starch.You’d bend down, we’d bend 
down, fill the tubwith cold cold water, pour in the powder, 
swirl itround and round, dip clothes in, dip, dip until 
our hands ached with the chill, until the collars of your
son stood tireless, upright the dresses of your daughters
crisp and motionless.                                                  

But what if you had decided to put down the wash,
leave the clothes floppy, unstarched. What if you
had decided to get off that train, the engine of custom 
no longer driving, and said, “It’s the other Niagara today.”   
Boarded that train. What if we had ridden for hours
and hours, run back and forth all afternoon to grab 
soda and chips from the dining car,

                 felt the breeze on us as soon as we got to the Falls,

what if we had finally arrived – amazed and happy!
as if we had been parched for years, and then sudden
water, cascading.

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