Amy Kitchener's Angels Without Wings Foundation
Presents the 2008 Iowa Senior Poet Laureate


Lila Borg Rohrer

EVER AFTER HAS ITS MOMENTS


I rode Ginger down a lane
and there he was, my ever after.
I, on my old horse, knobby and gray,
he, with cow manure on his boots,
little brother in hand.
Soft sunset behind bibbed figures.
Grant Wood gaunt.
Curfew hurried me home,
my heart filled with the boy,
after image aglow.

A daughter asks how we met.
He says, "She rode
her white charger down my lane,
chased the pretty maidens away.
Held me for ransom that
no one could pay.
So I kept her ever after."

Lila Borg Rohrer
Victor Iowa
LILA BORG ROHRER, aka "Susie," 79, Victor, Iowa, is a retired teacher and watercolor artist; one of her "Mini-Masterpiece" paintings is background of this bio page. The repeat SPL winner and her husband Don are shown in this recent photo of their 60th anniversary celebration. They have three daughters and five grandchildren. Her sign is Aquarius.