I know this is a poem about marriage (and very specific elements of a unique, particular marriage), but one thing I love about this poem is the way its particulars resonate and illuminate the universal experience of a multitude of relationships and (potential) separations.
The particulars it resonates with for me today: recent reunions and farewells within close friend groups (the kind of friendships that become like family and feel like home). We, too, are used to the “oursness of here,” although with friendships the temporal nature of this “oursness” hovers more noticeably/immediately/constantly than within family (and especially, we pray, marriage) relationships.
I know this is a poem about marriage (and very specific elements of a unique, particular marriage), but one thing I love about this poem is the way its particulars resonate and illuminate the universal experience of a multitude of relationships and (potential) separations.
The particulars it resonates with for me today: recent reunions and farewells within close friend groups (the kind of friendships that become like family and feel like home). We, too, are used to the “oursness of here,” although with friendships the temporal nature of this “oursness” hovers more noticeably/immediately/constantly than within family (and especially, we pray, marriage) relationships.