Twentieth Anniversary 

Twentieth Anniversary 

March 10, 1993

       for Ron

We have stitched the moments
into a fine garment of married love
that takes the cold edge off this world.

Sometimes like a baby’s fanny
fresh-diapered, our lives wobble
on new legs; green apples ripens in time. 

Wedded bliss rambles in the orchard
where love and lust bump each other
until all the apples have fallen

and the trees sigh with relief.