Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems about MarriageGinny Lowe Connors |
Contents
The Riddle of Three Words Norbert Krapf | 3 |
TOGETHER | 6 |
CourtshipAnnie Finch | 9 |
The Wedding Shower Beadrin Youngdahl | 15 |
For a Wedding in a Week of Devastation X J Kennedy | 21 |
Omens Alan Feldman | 28 |
An Epithalamium Annie Finch | 34 |
Bridge of Birds Erin Noteboom | 40 |
First Strawberries Jan Worth | 119 |
A Man and a Woman Alan Feldman | 127 |
The Infidelity of Sleep Marge Piercy | 133 |
We Are Civilized Ginny Lowe Connors | 139 |
The Happily Married Bachelor DC Berry | 145 |
DivorcingF Richard Thomas | 152 |
DiminuendoStephen Dunn | 159 |
Skating Lessons Zack Rogow | 165 |
The Beautiful Alive Alone Illusion Marilyn Krysl | 45 |
BeardApril Lindner | 51 |
Playing PossumJeff Worley | 57 |
Jump Start Mary Laufer | 63 |
The Lover Barbara Helfgott Hyett | 70 |
The First Moment Cassie Premo Steele | 76 |
APART | 80 |
Our Children Coming of Age Wendell Berry | 82 |
Alive Together Lisel Mueller | 87 |
Folding SheetsRichard Broderick | 93 |
Domestic Love Rasma Haidri | 100 |
All Clear Richard Broderick | 107 |
At the Metolius River We Walk in Falling Snow Judith | 113 |
Parties Must Be Appropriately Dressed Susan Eisenberg | 168 |
Love Poem to My Husband of ThirtyOne Years Maria Mazziotti | 174 |
The Country of Marriage Wendell Berry | 181 |
On FaithCecilia Woloch | 187 |
Cut Open a Papaya My Husband Reads His UFO Journal | 194 |
The Marriage Barbara Adams | 200 |
Housewife Susan Fromberg Schaeffer | 207 |
Watershed Nancy Kerrigan Jarasek | 213 |
Orion Judith Serin | 214 |
Valentine Peter Makuck | 227 |
For Acer and all the Years Maude Meehan | 240 |
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