Bridal March, Part IV: Kneading
If you can make the seat and pillow work for you, the rest’s no problem. I’ll just pretend that you’re not there at all.
Bridal March, Part III: Grinding
It’s not about needing anyone, not him, not you, not anyone. The point is that this is an opportunity you may never get again, once-in-a-life-time chance to meet somebody you can stand.
Bridal March, Part II: Threshing & Sifting
So you see: the only man I’d want to be with is someone who absolutely doesn’t need me. So forget it. It won’t happen. End of story.
Bridal March, Part I: Scything
Was it love at first sight? The process of marriage began long before there ever was a sighting. Before falling into love, there simply was falling.
March
Do you think of Pomp and Circumstance, of the dozen or so steps first generation college students take to ascend the stage and receive a roll of paper standing for their diploma, as all their relatives on the sidelines cheer? Who thinks of Wagner’s Lohengrin, the trumpet chorus …
Bridal Path, Part V: Proofing
Dawn by the fire, and only six words said over those two days of being out at home again. Three each.
Poetry Blog Digest 2023, Week 33
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