Sinister: two birds with one stone

[jj]

if i'm not mistaken, today (or yesterday, 
depending on your time zone) is the day we should
wish a happy happy day to that most sinister of
couples, JJ and racheeeee! may you both be incredibly 
happy together for the rest of your days :) and 
you'd better put up pictures so we can all see 
how beautiful your wedding was!

in honor of their wedding and since damon sent
me the poetry parrot a week ago, i'll pass on
a little wedding poem by John Ciardi:

Most Like An Arch This Marriage

Most like an arch--an entrance which upholds
and shores the stone-crush up the air like lace.
Mass made idea, and idea held in place.
A lock in time. Inside half-heaven unfolds.

Most like an arch--two weaknesses that lean
into a strength. Two fallings become firm.
Two joined abeyances become a term
naming the fact that teaches fact to mean.

Not quite that? Not much less. World as it is,
what's strong and seperate falters. All I do 
at piling stone on stone apart from you
is roofless around nothing. Till we kiss

I am no more than upright and unset.
It is by falling in and in we make
the all-bearing point, for one another's sake,
in faultless failing, raised by our own weight.

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and i guess i now have to pass on the poetry parrot
to someone else, so i'll send it in a northerly 
direction to canada to the lovely elizabeth aka 
EA...fly quickly, little parrot, to your new keeper.

xojj


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