The way you wore white,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the way it sheathed and wrinkled<\/p>\n\n\n\n
your hips and torso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
White, still never the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Black Crowes blasted<\/p>\n\n\n\n
while we soaked in the Jacuzzi<\/p>\n\n\n\n
installed by a dairy farmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
with a broken body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Candles flickering,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
bubble bath bubbling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I should have proposed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
hired a Black Crowes cover band to play at our wedding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You clad (barely) in a purple top<\/p>\n\n\n\n
on a hot summer’s evening<\/p>\n\n\n\n
as we strolled the Oregon City promenade,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
past the famous green Elevator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Willamette River ran slack and gray below<\/p>\n\n\n\n
while Oregon’s last paper mill shot steam into a blue sky,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the purple top again,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
on Nestucca Spit,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
when you flashed the pilot of the red biplane<\/p>\n\n\n\n
spying on us splayed in the yellow spears of dune grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He gave you the thumbs up<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and somehow managed to land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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