THE QUEEN’S COFFIN & COAT

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One of the Queen's coats
| September 19, 2022

THE QUEEN’S COFFIN & COAT

Coat of Arms draped,

Royal Standard flag.

Lions with a harp emblem.

Top—Imperial Crown.

Oak coffin lined in lead.

Seattle, March 7, 1983,

Westin Hotel coat check.

I was assigned to guard

The Queen’s Coat. Told,

“Never look in her pockets.”

Seeing pictures of the Queen

in her Royal Coats, I still wonder,

what was in her pockets?

Lie in state, Queen Elizabeth,

Westminster Hall is busy.

April Ryan, who briefly met one of the Queen’s coats, is a writer and poet, much published on Sharing Stories and in Poetry Corner.

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