Pallbearer

[milo]

V. 1
Pallbearer
for Quemilla Anderson


Carrying you
down the church
steps to pealing bells
to the car, I thought myself
a father, taking a daughter to bed
over his shoulder, turning off the light
and shutting the door, waiting to share
a sunlit breakfast at a loud and crowded table.

I think that carrying some one to pealing bells doesn't work. The reason is that carrying implies motion and the double meaning of to introduces a clumsy ambiguity instead of an elegant one.

When they got to the car I thought "what happened, I though they were going to the pealing bells?"
Also, the double "to's"