Fellow literary people, tomorrow is the wedding anniversary of Peter Ciccariello and me. Below are our wedding vows that we recited at the top of 40 Steps at the edge of the ocean in Newport, RI. We were married at the beginning of the lunar year during a full moon: Forty Reasons P: The way your hair cannot stop falling in my face S: Looking down at you looking up at me P: How endlessly your heart forms concentric circles S: Always drawing you in, deeper and deeper P: Your precious immeasurable, indisputable self S: The way that yourself and myself are endlessly entwined P: How when everything fell away you stood, alone with your arms around me S: And – in that moment, our world was complete P: The astonishing burning fire that passes between us S: Until we are the embodiment of the yin and the yang P: How I am helpless when you smile S: The children we become together, laughing and tumbling P: The pieces of you that remain inside of me S: Your poet’s heart beating in my chest P: The immensely black sky and the shimmer of your skin S: Your breath a zephyr dancing upon my skin P: Watching you walk S: Looking over my shoulder to make sure you’re watching P: Given what we can be to each other S: Given what we have been and will be together P: The part of your heart you let me live in S: So that I am never without you, my darling P: The unbearable thought of being without you S: The interminable waiting when we are apart P: Your voice on the phone halfway across the world S: Dreaming of your arms that are my home P: The places we have not yet been S: O – the many places we have been P: How we walk in perfect cadence S: Hands clasped and feet engaged in a cosmic dance P: Being the first thing I see in the morning S: And the last thing I feel at night P: Your irrepressible youthfulness S: Your old soul wisdom P: Our infinite future together S: And our infinite past, seamlessly undulating P: How you will do anything I ask of you, so I don’t need to ask S: Morning coffee in bed to the sound of no one else around P: How I will follow you anywhere S: By my side, always by my side Today, in front of these people that we love, in front of this prescient ocean and this never-ending sky, on the backs of these ageless rocks, we ask for this time to proclaim our love to each other and to this world both as a binding and as a release May the million tiny birds of our souls fill this sky with the light that we see in each other’s eyes
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:33:31 +0000
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