How To Write A Love Poem People Won’t Roll Their Eyes At
L Mari Harris I probably shouldn’t begin with something cheesy like You complete me. Besides, that would be a lie. Something more prosaic, more between the errands & tossing another load in, more drawing lines through the honey- do list, how you barely grumble anymore when I remind you to clean the gutters. Or I can bring up those days in our beginning, when I was pretty sure you were also seeing that bottle blonde at the tavern one town over (& if you ever put that fishing pole down long enough to hear read my words, you’ll learn I had a few big fish hooked as well back then). Or I could throw everyone for a loop & describe how we go country road ditch driving to pick elderberries & sumac —no fancy dinners out all googly eyed, playing footsy under the table because we still can’t keep our hands off each other (do they know sumac tea tastes like lemonade, or how many elderberries it takes to make a quart of jam? :It does, & more than you think: if you played footsy with me now, I’d ask if you were having a foot cramp?). Would it be too saccharine to proclaim that you saved me? Too hyperbolic? What some more haughty types would bluster You haven’t suspended my disbelief? I write what I know. You saved me. Like giving my soul over to Jesus, reborn in the clear river water of this marriage. (Is the Jesus analogy a little over the top?) How about like those settled Sunday mornings when the lost are still sleeping it off from the night before, not yet regretting what they will wake up next to, while I heat up the skillet until the butter shimmers, drop my Johnny cake batter ladle by ladle, watching for the bubbles to appear, for you to arise. This house, these acres: we call dibs, gate locked to the curious & the intruder. |
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L Mari Harris splits her time between Nebraska and the Ozarks. She works as a copywriter in the tech industry. Follow her on Twitter @LMariHarris and read more of her work at www.lmariharris.wordpress.com.
L Mari Harris splits her time between Nebraska and the Ozarks. She works as a copywriter in the tech industry. Follow her on Twitter @LMariHarris and read more of her work at www.lmariharris.wordpress.com.