Marc Carver

and told her that she played lovely

She told me it was Tchaikovsky

and then she told me her wedding
was tomorrow
and why didn’t I come

I never went to her wedding
but a few days later
I went back to the church
and thought about playing the piano

not that I can play of course

and when I went over to the piano

there was no piano

almost as if that magical moment
had never happened