Monday, February 28, 2011

Sharing A Poem, Saying Goodbye To February

I enjoyed our shortest month this year but I'm really excited to bid it adieu, even though I know what's next: dreaded March. But March holds the pop up, and a SevPrez winter vacation, so I'm optimistic.


Still to honor the valentine month, a poem about love and marriage. XOXO Feb, till next year!


The Kama Sutra of Kindness: Position Number 3
by Mary Mackey


It's easy to love
through a cold spring
when the poles
of the willows
turn green
pollen falls like
a yellow curtain
and the scent of
Paper Whites
clots
the air


but to love for a lifetime
takes talent


you have to mix yourself
with the strange
beauty of someone
else
wake each morning
for 72,000
mornings in
a row so
breathed and
bound and
tangled
that you can hardly
sort out your arms
and
legs


you have to
find forgiveness
in everything
even ink stains
and broken
cups


you have to be willing to move though
life
together
the way the long
grasses move
in a field
when you careen
blindly toward
the other
side


there's never going to be anything
straight or predictable
about your path
except the
flattening
and the springing
back


you just go on walking for years
hand in hand
waist deep in the weeds
bent slightly forward
like two question
marks
and all the while it


burns
my dear
it burns beautifully above
you
and goes on
burning
like a relentless
sun

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