Wrought Iron

Clara's notebook included this clipping.

Skilled work; very beautiful; indestructible.
Those little feet; arcing legs and backs; stout rectangle;
stabilizing members below, complete with flowerpot ring;
accent of floral spray at corners and on chairs.

The table and chairs that Gene and Clara eventually
acquired were quite similar to the original dream.
The legs arc, and end in little feet hammered
to look like flower petals.
It's all in the JZ office now,
keeping company with 1861 iron doorlatches.

The kitchen table: a lot of us have a lot of memories
centered around that kitchen table.
Send in yours! I'll put them together
in a post.

There was, for a time, a wrought-iron frame,
curved like the curves in this cornucopia design,
holding several flowerpot rings.
Was it on the wall of the front porch?
Did they take it down because it rusted?
Did Marty use parts of it in Suzette's gravestone
that he made on that sad day?

I never saw a geranium or anything else in this ring,
but it's always been just great to have it there.
And see the weld traces?

Glass-topped it was, originally, yes.
A little girl would habitually sit on the edge of it and talk with her Mom
who would be standing at the cupboard.
This little girl kept cleaning her plate every suppertime, like a good girl should.
One day, "Cracccck!"
Uncle Dick and Uncle Eddie were called upon
to convert the whole deal to wood.