They stood before the priest and knotted
themselves together with a vow
until death do us part.
And yet, what if the knot
stays tight and death is
just an illusion
of escape?
Lynette G. Esposito, MA Rutgers, has been published in Poetry Quarterly, North of Oxford, Twin Decades, Remembered Arts, Reader’s Digest, US1, and others. She was married to Attilio Esposito and lives with eight rescued muses in Southern New Jersey.