For Jane on our 23rd Anniversary
September 2, 2012
You wore white that day–and I wore gray. I stood
And watched you whisper down the aisle, a pearl
In morning sunlight, bathed in air that could,
And did, ignite and forge our hearts to one.
You wore bronze that day–and I wore gray. I watched
Them roll you down the aisle to where we stood
And vined our lives and souls together then.
I stood aside: Death and Life reclaimed you.
You walk the Garden now: no flowers fall,
No leaves turn brown, no hummingbirds depart.
I walk the Earth. The flowers whither, fade–
Leaves turn brown and die, the birds fall silent.
Still our twined and knotted souls strive to reach
The holy note that gives the Earth-chord speech.
All my love, always and all ways,
Harry
