A Wedding Benison
You ask for a poem.
I offer you a blade of grass.
You say it is not good enough.
You ask for a poem. - Brian Patten
Let this be the geography of your marriage: a rain drenched summer medow in which the soul meets solitude.
Let the lay of this land slope towards a creek over which hover cardioid damselflies as they do here now.
Let the rooms of your twilights be lit by laughter that signals like a lighthouse or a firefly.
Let lines on your palm wander into the lines of the other's, where they may encounter both poems and grass.
For N & V, in lieu of a blade of grass for their wedding, this delayed poem.
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Also this and this are two other wedding (pre & post) poems I wrote.
My Poems
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