Two hearts Joined together In a bond Greater than heaven Two souls Joined together Bound by love Greater then the cosmos Two friends Come together To join forever In the bond of marriage Friend and family Watched them go To the place Of heart filled bliss We wish them love We wish them caring We [...]

The wedding: it must be right everything must go to plan be exact to near perfection. We must hope the weather holds and sunshine dominates. We must feed the guests occupy them with our chat and false politeness. We must keep them with a drink a joke a dance it must be right – the [...]

The river has not entered the house yet. I pack framed photographs: weddings, babies, dead uncles, and grandparents, set aside ceramic eggs, balanced on wooden stands, to reach the wedding cake couple, equidistant between two photographs. My mother, in her borrowed wedding dress, holding a bouquet of artificial flowers, whiter than Aunt Rose Mary’s silk [...]

This year won’t presumably pass Without you letting me know Just when the wedding bells Ring for us. Is it in the Spring when the tufts Of golden grass paint shadows of us Making love beneath its’ tall slivers Basking until dusk? When do the wedding bells ring? I clearly can hear, The staunch steeple [...]