clipped from writersalmanac.publicradio.orgAfter Our Wedding
in your suitcase,
the driver had to pull over
to clap for you,
a young, slender woman
in a wedding dress and tiara,
retrieving a slip of paper
from the trunk of a cab
many of the guests at our wedding have divorced
or are gone,
and the restaurant has closed
to become a tattoo parlor.
And we have misplaced and found
many more papers,
has been like a great bus
slowly turning onto a crowded street.
And some of the passengers
*
While others anxiously search
their jacket pockets
for the notes that might wed
their ordinary lives
to something lofty and astonishing.
the driver had to pull over
in front of the restaurant.
Men and women dining beneath the August sun
looked up from their salads Men and women dining beneath the August sun
to clap for you,
a young, slender woman
in a wedding dress and tiara,
retrieving a slip of paper
from the trunk of a cab
in the middle of the street.
And since that day,many of the guests at our wedding have divorced
or are gone,
and the restaurant has closed
to become a tattoo parlor.
And we have misplaced and found
many more papers,
but no one was clapping.
And the motion of the lives around ushas been like a great bus
slowly turning onto a crowded street.
And some of the passengers
have fallen asleep in their seats,
*
While others anxiously search
their jacket pockets
for the notes that might wed
their ordinary lives
to something lofty and astonishing.
"After Our Wedding" by Yehoshua November, from God's Optimism. © Main Street Rag, 2010.
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