tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982324182901026642.post5923792037036384111..comments2023-10-25T12:14:38.190+01:00Comments on Orla Fay: A Wedding PoemOrla Fayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06793698838699811789noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982324182901026642.post-58171931237299079592014-04-08T16:11:26.321+01:002014-04-08T16:11:26.321+01:00The First Marriage
by Peter Meinke
for Gretche...The First Marriage<br /><br /> by Peter Meinke <br />for Gretchen and Herb: June 15, 1991<br /><br /><br />imagine the very first marriage a girl<br />and boy trembling with some inchoate<br />need for ceremony a desire for witness:<br />inventing formality like a wheel or a hoe<br /><br />in a lost language in a clearing too far from here<br />a prophet or a prophetess intoned to the lovers<br />who knelt with their hearts cresting<br />like the unnamed ocean thinking This is true<br /><br />thinking they will never be alone again<br />though planets slip their tracks and fish<br />desert the sea repeating those magic sounds<br />meaning I do on this stone below<br />this tree before these friends yes in body<br />and word my darkdream my sunsong yes I do I do<br /><br />More at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5857Michael Farryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14166338392128797311noreply@blogger.com