Anniversary

Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri by Mona Van Duyn The quake last night was nothing personal,

Francesco and Clare by David St. John It was there, in that little town

Couple Sharing a Peach by Molly Peacock It's not the first time

Man and Wife by Robert Lowell Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed;

The Elephant is Slow to Mate by D. H. Lawrence The elephant, the huge old beast,

To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet If ever two were one, then surely we.

I Married You by Linda Pastan I married you

Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year by Maxine Kumin Instead of marrying the day after graduation

The Anniversary by Elaine Terranova That night

My Wife by Robert Louis Stevenson Trusty, dusky, vivid, true

The Anniversary by John Donne All kings, and all their favourites

Orpheus by Robert Kelly Orpheus can never look back at the real woman

The Storm by Theodore Roethke Against the stone breakwater,

Let Me Disappear by Ray Gonzalez According to scientists, astronauts get taller when they are in space

A Man Meets a Woman in the Street by Randall Jarrell Under the separated leaves of shade

The Sympathies of the Long Married by Robert Bly Oh well, let's go on eating the grains of eternity