My Darling Clementine
written by: Carla Sarett
@cjsarett
I always get the ending wrong,
no matter how many times,
I get it wrong. Half-awake from Tombstone
dreams. That too-brief handshake.
Clementine ascends into a horse- drawn
carriage for Philadelphia, while
straight-backed and so quiet,
Henry Fonda watches her recede
into the glowing dust.
I always get the ending wrong.
I know better in grim
daylight how it ends.
oh my darling, oh my darling
alone in the dry frontier.
Carla Sarett is a poet and novelist based in San Francisco. She is the author of She Has Visions (Main Street Rag) and two poetry chapbooks, My Family Was Like a Russian Novel (Plan B Press) and Woman on the Run (Alien Buddha.) Carla earned her PhD from University of Pennsylvania.
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