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[apiphile]

Mutual growth

For maud and fred on the occasion of their wedding

at the place where the lake makes an elbow there are two islets
like land-drops on the surface of the water
unremarkable but for the tangled tree that spreads across them
or say rather trees: one on each.
spidery roots cover one micro continent
thick twisting buttresses over the other's reach
and across the channel dividing their kingdoms
two small giants lean together
a pair of individual arboreal empires embrace one another
and become a central column
grasping for the sun
each might have striven unsupported
but they've united into one
wooden bridge across the waters
where gleeful squirrels run
and a single day grows into years
in the turning of a leaf.
such is the reward of stretching out
to take another's hand:
with a tight enough clasp we make a channel
our own land.

Comments

[wolfy_writing]

Ooh, this is an amazing love poem! I love how the imagery builds in such detail and specificity!

[apiphile]

I read a thing that said that's what poems are: using a specific image to evoke a wider, more identifiable emotional state. I don't normally like to follow that because I prefer wittering about concepts I can't describe in prose, or am afraid to--but this is for a wedding, so I figure "relatable" is key.

[wolfy_writing]

Well, you did it beautifully!

[gool_duck]

THat is beautiful and by the last line I had tears in my eyes.

[apiphile]

Will it please them, do you think?

[gool_duck]

Yes

(I don't see how it would not)

[kat_lair]

and a single day grows into years
in the turning of a leaf.
such is the reward of stretching out
to take another's hand:
with a tight enough clasp we make a channel
our own land.

This ending? took a tight clasp of my heart. gorgeous.

[apiphile]

I'm so glad this is getting a good reception--I won't have the chance to read it at their wedding but I'd like to give it to them so I want it to be good, you know?