K.I.S.S.

Keeping It Short and Simple Week Continues

“Love at the Library” Painted Rock - Photography by Laura L. Hansen

A Marriage
by Laura L. Hansen

The one time
I truly loved you
was when we were caught out
in a sudden rain
and you laughed
and we ran down the street
holding hands
avoiding awnings
rainwater curling into our open joyful mouths
like oxygen or wind
like a glut of French kisses
and the rain caressed the streetlamps
until they melted into liquid light
and then we were at the car
and its calm quiet seclusion
and we slammed the doors
and we never laughed 
like that again

This poem was easy to write but hard to title. Here are some titles that offered themselves to me:

Untitled
Never/Ever
The Story of a Marriage
Another Summer of No Rain
A Marriage of Five Years and a Day
A Marriage of Five Years and That One Day

Do you have a favorite or an alternate title idea? Leave a comment.

Truly, despite warnings in the forecast, it failed to rain again. How are we supposed to remain The Land of 10,000 Lakes if there is nothing going into our aquifer?