Photos taken by David Sweeney

The M.O.M. Project ...

The Wedding Dress

(a song performed  by 'Poor Tom' in ACT 2 March/April 2006 in Uxbridge, Ontario)

Gather memory scraps in time / transforming before my eyes / to satin, lace, organza stitched by hand / with long, long threads.

Layers build like years. / All trim, embroidery, beads, / 'til my baby's poised before my eyes, bestowed, / in waterfalls of spun love.

Haven't dressed her in so long / that it takes my breath away.

From pile-high hair, my veil cascades / past tomboy eyes, straight shoulders, / borrowed pearls. / The sylvan thread / that binds our souls unties.

Did my mother feel that blush? / Come time, will my daughter too?

Gather memory scraps in time / transforming before my eyes / to satin, lace, organza stitched by hand / with long, long threads.

  (left-Barbara Hunt, Janice Turner, Lois Hayes;                                                       right-Barbara Hunt, Shelagh Damus)