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Masterpiece
By Susan Law Corpany Editor's note: Susan Corpany was en route from Idaho to Salt Lake City when her column was due, but her travel computer relentlessly refused to relinquish the column she had written for today. Instead she was inspired by her niece's wedding to share this poem with her readers. 
Masterpiece
Our relationship
is a bit like blown glass
and must be handled with great care.
We must hold it gently
as one fragile strand after another
is carefully crafted
and grafted
to each other piece
to form a whole.
As the last touch is added,
a work of art is wrought,
but although we have realized
the end of the forming stages,
we must remember that
although complete
our relationship is still delicate
and must be held gently.
Before, we could only destroy
a promise of beauty,
but now we must preserve
a masterpiece.
—Susan Law Corpany
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Susan Law Corpany grew up in Salt Lake City. She
attended Utah State University and the University of Utah, and she
is currently attending the University of Hawaii at Hilo, on the
big island of Hawaii, where she now lives. She is married to Thom
Curtis, a sociology professor at UHH. She has one son, a stepdaughter
and five stepsons. She recently became a grandmother to the world's
most beautiful baby girl and will, on request, furnish the e-mail
addresses of her unmarried returned missionary sons to eligible
young ladies in an attempt to get more such wonderful grandbabies.
She has stored up a half century of
wit and wisdom and began a couple of decades ago to download it
onto the printed page. Widowed in her twenties, a series of books
resulted from the experience. She is the author of Brotherly
Love, Unfinished Business, Push On and Are We There Yet?
She considers herself sort of a cross between Erma Bombeck and Eliza
R. Snow and says she writes under her first married name "To
honor my first husband and not to embarrass my current one."
She is currently working on several other novels, and is collaborating
on a humorous self-help book called, "Why Don't the Airlines
Ever Lose My Emotional Baggage?"
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