for two-equal-two: Lisa and Paul, May 22, 2019 – getting hitched with two strangers as witnesses, my new stepdaughter flogging the air with youth, your office mate to capture said event with smart phone, and a County Clerk who was so mellow that watching chocolate melt at room temperature is more exciting
*****
rhododendrons flash now
dreams shared inside Sitka winds
the old you hold
is more than antique
an abiding strength
your hands hold
mine sing our silence
ebb, flow, a dance
you notice river otter
laugh at a wrong way
to seal rock, laugh when
ferns take hold as you
go in reverse to find home
I notice harmonies
you mean worlds
undiscovered to me
pulsars at the bottom
of Pacific anything
you honor my passage
inside fractures of time
sweet sound
your laugh
that holds on to me
no longer misbegotten
together now
a friend, a mate, spirit twin . . . .