An Autumn Wedding at Double Trouble

I was a bride married to amazement.

I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

Mary Oliver (from When Death Comes)

 

There was no silken white runner

no candles on the altar

no scripture or rings

no Pachelbel's Canon

or distant relatives there

mostly for the reception

 

Only the sandy path

bounded on each side

by cranberry bogs

like pews on which sat

the Canada Geese 

friends of both bride and groom

 

The bright blue Smooth Aster - 

Symphyotrichum laeve

stood witness in all their

autumn glory

 

Barn Swallows danced

to some silent song

that could not be found 

in the D.J.‘s collection

 

I stood in amazement

taking the world into my arms

met there at Nature’s altar

by the I Am 

all that was said in turn was “I do”

 

Comments

[tadd]

beautiful
i shared it with lorelei and kurt
you really even mastered the tone and meter of oliver's poems i think
they feel the same to me anyway