[Barbara Baig]

Hi Susan,
I enjoyed the first stanza (all the wildflowers where I am in Maine bloomed outside of their usual times this year--but they all bloomed earlier).
The second stanza confused me: The simile seems incomplete. For one thing, is "she" the bride? In that case it appears that the whole stanza refers to her, so there's no real simile that I can see. If "she" is the lilac bush, I'd need that to be made clearer. Also, I can understand the bush making its way to "doom"--but why is the bride doing so?

Barbara