Jun 252012
Beloved is the word
we share round
today’s wedding of
reader and poet.
We ring this word
hither and dear
with each waltz
into the microphone.
Any among us
who don’t care
go get some sleep.
Come back tomorrow.
Everyone else
look beside you.
One at each table
has a voice to give
couples who stumble.
Here they come
slow now
so be careful
with your beloved.
Watt Childress
Watt publishes upperleftedge.com. He also owns Jupiter's Rare & Used Books in downtown Cannon Beach and is a regular contributor to HIPFiSH. His work has appeared in the Daily Astorian, the North Coast Citizen, the Seaside Signal, The Oregonian, the Vancouver Observer, The Tennessean, Now & Then Magazine, Presbyterian Survey, and The Third Eye. Much of this wordy compulsion began in 1994, when he started sending odd stuff to the Upper Left Edge.
Watt lives on a farm in the Nehalem Valley with his wife Jennifer and their two daughters. They care for dairy goats and other critters.