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Double Wedding

Let’s have a double wedding,
You and me
And Eros and Agape.

Let us post
Interchangeable notes
On bedroom wall
And refrigerator:
“Love thy lover”
And “Love they neighbor.”

Let us hold hands
In movies
And in the hospital.

Let us kiss
Shoulders and eyelids
And the cut fingers
Of small children.

Let us serve one another
Apple blossoms in vases
And quartered fruit
On trays.

Let us write poems
And wills to each other.

Let us have nights
As friendly lovers
And days as loving friends.

And let the four of us,
You and me
And Eros and Agape,
Stand in line together,
At the grocery store
And at a golden
Anniversary.

Carol Lynn Pearson