A Sonnet on Hiking and Marriage

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Sep 21, 2024

This coming Wednesday, September 25th, is my and my husband’s 20th wedding anniversary. The sonnet below could be seen as a celebration of our long love.

We took a hike together by the river this past month.

Sonnet 2.XII - A Hike Along the River

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We get a moment away together – 
   at my request – and leave the kids at home.
   We go for a hike at Yellow River
   on trails that skirt the water, smell of loam.
I know these woods, so I lead, set the tone
   with play, wonder, and curiosity.
   In long denim skirt and hiking Chacos
   I sashay my way through my favorite trees.
I wonder about their identity,
   and take pictures of this and that and him.
   He tells me a proverb of how, when deep,
   a river is calm, but clanging when thin.
I swoon because he’s touched my soul with words.
   We hike on, hushed, listen to songs of birds.

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