To My Bride
Published Jul 11, 2007
"I, who so often used to wish to float free / of earth, now with all my being want to stay, / to climb with you on other evenings to this stone, / maybe finding a bear, or a coyote, like / the one who, at dusk, a week ago, passed / in his scissorish gait ten feet from where we sat-- / this earth we attach ourselves to so fiercely, / like scions of Sheffield Seek-No-Furthers / grafted for our lifetimes onto paradise root-stock." ~ Galway Kinnell, "The Stone Table"