An Epithalamium for Myself

a spouse is a standard-bearer by whom one is known before one arrives

To be married means to reject rejection. To change a trampoline for a bed. To talk about walking where once one walked about talking. To feel oneselves equal and opposite forces with new vectors.

As children back to back pull on their boots we packed our day for retreating and meeting through places in time. I shall acquire your memory and you my future.

Mimosa means joy.

Spring will be an allspice of beginnings. Mixture has richer texture; compounds unpredictable properties. Reason is inexhaustible. In couples is more serendipity. Their pleasures interinanimative. Marriage of us more a thesaurus of meanings than the Falls of Amor with their weanings, preenings, and keenings.

Surprises of comfort and care fill the field full of folk.

Organs play.

Bondage comes bearing gifts.