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"Mama," I called my father's new wife, long

Before my older sisters, both still mourning

Their dark-haired, stylish, much-loved parent, did.

Never in words did Daddy convey the torment

He felt when Mother died; in fact, till forced to,

Avoided even mentioning her name.

Pictures of her he put in hiding. She

Like all invisible ideas or persons

Loomed, she became, what, legendary.

No doubt he thought he should play down bereavement

So as not to jeopardize his second marriage.

The Hitchcock film Rebecca, had he seen that,

The one in which a wife succumbs to fears

She matters less to her beloved than

His first? As dilemmas go, it's sort of common,

Even when just divorce has torn a husband

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