Our Love

Love instantiates. Twain souls
set out: governed by gravity
sliding scraping muscling through

perilous rapids churning white
bending through forests and fields
beneath the bridges of twelve towns

gaining girth and losing speed
adding a tinge of toxic sludge
to a whispering flood a mile wide.

From glacial melt to delta salt,
this is who we are.

NOTE: Nancy and I were married on March 5, 1966. This poem celebrates our 59th. wedding anniversary . We lived in these twelve towns: San Diego, CA; Long Beach, CA; Pocatello, ID; St. Paul, MN; Seattle, WA; Federal Way, WA; Renton, WA; Germantown, MD; Eugene, OR; Veneta, OR; Redmond, WA; Lake Stevens, WA.