Article: Canterbury Tale.(Poem)

 
Canterbury Tale 
 
   The flowers she buys at the grocery 
   spray from a jam jar, though we 
   can afford crystal now. 
   When in April, twenty years ago, 
   on a campus sidewalk, stopped 
   by a glance of sunlight on a bell tower, 
   she exclaimed, "How like this is 
   to Canterbury"--but pronounced it 
   canta-bree--I, Georgia cracker, frustrated 
   Anglo-, Italo-, Francophile, 
   was stunned, struck down by love, like 
   Dante by Beatrice, by her whiff 
   of cucumber sandwiches and tea cakes, 
   her skin like gold museum ...

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