Anniversary Special
for L

It is our 24th Wedding Anniversary today, & Lenore is sickish with a cold,
But we went out, I met her at work & drove her to Amer-Asia where
We had spicy-hot dim-sum. That noodle salad was so good, cold-hot,
and the Szechuan beef in a bowl with noodles inflamed the senses of the graying day.
And those dumplings stuffed with gingered pork, & those with beef & water chestnuts.
It is like our life of 24 years, it is our 24 years, cold-hot, inflamed,
Focused on the best, a narrow focus on the widest agreement of all,
Doing what we can together. It’s as if the rest of the world won’t have us.
We have run from it to each other, I guess. 24 years announces
it’s time to get ready for the 25th Wedding Anniversary,
When in more detail, we'll remember the day December 2nd
When we got married twice to make it legal, but really got married
To a Shoshone flute played in the New York House of Placitas, and it snowed,
And I wore black & white striped pants & a flaming red-orange shirt, & she a full-length
red-purple flowered dress, all of which she made by hand.


Sonnet 8 from Renew Anew/2Dec92