Now and Forever: A Marrying Poem (for my wife)

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i looked at her

she reminded me

forever begins now

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in a letter

comes a present

i receive

 .

from her

from my past:

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“my forever is beginning”

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i had said

when she came

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i look at her

she reminds me

forever began now

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October 2010

January of ‘14

still forever,

still beginning

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forever is never

absolute

but it’s relate-ive

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in other words –

“as long as” –

“i” holds together,

also “you,” and then “we”

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i look at you

the seeing re-minds

the hearing and touch

the tasting and smell

of forever,

and now