Mary
& Rodger
May your love be firm,
and your dream of life together
be a river between two shores—
By day bathed in sunlight,
and by night illuminated from within.
May the heron carry news of
you to the heavens,
and the salmon bring the sea's
blue grace.
May your twin thoughts spiral
upward like leafy vines,
like fiddle strings in the
wind,
and be as noble as the Douglas
fir.
May you never find yourselves
back to back
without love pulling you around
into each other's arms.
—James Bertolino