Epithalamion

I don't know what (and---if at all---how much) access to technology I'll have during the weekends here, so I'm planning to blog only on working days.

This being a long weekend, that means I'll only blog again on Tuesday, May 28 (after today's blog).

And my friends Alysha Warner and Michael Robison are getting married tomorrow ... in Wyoming.  That's where I'd have been tomorrow, had I not been accepted to Iowa this summer.  So I'm posting today a poem that James Wright wrote for a wedding:
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A Moral Poem Freely Accepted from Sappho
     for the marriage of Frances Seltzer and Philip Mendlow

By James Wright

I would like to sleep with deer.
Then she emerges.
I sleep with both.
This poem is a deer with a dream in it.
I have stepped across the rock.
The three wings coiling out of that black stone in my breast
Jut up slashing the other two
Sides of the sky.
Let the dead rise.
Let us two die
Down with the two deer.
I believe that love among us
And those two animals
Has its place in the
Brilliance of the sun that is
More gold than gold,
And in virtue.