On a Wedding Anniversary
The sky is torn across This ragged anniversary of two Who moved for three years in tune Down the long walks of their vows. Now their love lies a loss And Love and his patients roar on a chain; From every tune or crater Carrying cloud, Death strikes their house. Too late in the wrong rain They come together whom their love parted: The windows pour into their heart And the doors burn in their brain.
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Wedding Anniversary
Written for a wedding anniversary, this short poem frames the occasion ironically: the anniversary exposes a relationship grown apart. Thomas stages a reunion that is belated and devastated, using weather and violence to suggest emotional rupture, loss, and the permanence of separation. Rather than a celebration, the poem treats the anniversary as a moment when past vows are revealed as worn and when love’s absence is made painfully visible.
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