Forty-five years together.
Good times and bad.
In love and out.
Yet always persevering.
Tenacity and grit
are underrated.
Why not praise them, too?
Together to the end.
It is evening.
This is a love poem.
--David Budbill, from Happy Life
"Maybe if we reinvent whatever our lives give us we find poems." --Naomi Shihab Nye
[Posted in honor of Canada Day] I am writing this on a strip of white birch bark that I cut from a tree with a penknife. There is no other w...
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