Marriage

Marriage    (Working the Page U of I MOOC)

love

sweet hot true

possibilities                                 nothing nailed down                  spontaneity alive

marriage

the vow

                                                      the piece of paper

                                                           Signed

                                                           Sealed

                                                     Dead in a dusty office

a girl                                                                                                                a boy

                                                             a couple

everything                                               in the process                 of being nailed

                                                                                                                                         down

chafing starts                                      the can’t do anymore

                                          overpowering                                                 the want

the hot gone                                                      buried in the drawer with the black silky things

resentment rebounds                                        his       hers         knocking against each other

                                                                    as the hard bones used to

                                                   in the flurry of the moment

                                                           when lips and hands could not be denied

                                                                    marriage mirage rage age…

it’s

over 

--Katherine M. Searle