Nuptial Ultim

image borrowed from our family album

Nuptial Ultim

“A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet

and two solos at the same time.”--Barnett R. Brickner

Between my wife and myself

we share the wealth of six marriages;

three states of matrimony each,

finding each other late along our journey,

eyes wide open, wild oats sown,

fantasies, mysteries, most of the mistakes 

exorcised.

Yet the mythos, the magic, the heat

is prevalent, permanent, & sturdy.

On that day in 1993,

the north and the south

collided,

and as we made contact

and were joined,

we became one entity,

two souls in lock-step

forming the spiritual fetus

of a whole new organism,

man + woman,

husband + wife

united,

commingled, mixed, blended & blessed.

Truth, naked and quivering, streaked

across the face of the millennium

like a crackling Texas lightning bolt,

silver brilliant against a midnight sky,

and I think we were stone-captured,

coupled cosmically, just steel shavings

inexorably drawn to each other’s magnets,

maneuvering magnificently into alignment

on a parallel plane;

Thank God,

as we met

we recognized

each other.

Glenn Buttkus

December 2012

Posted on over at dVerse Poets-Poetics

Would you like to hear the author read this poem to you?