Wow! what a day!see: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=799524860&aid=290025
And here was the wedding poem - which can hardly do justice to 20 years of companionship and so much more. But sometimes you have to try to say it anyway:
Cartography for the Heart
I
With you I am a traveller
a maker of maps:
charting the body's terrain
from stone rise of hip
to waist's sloping glen;
by navel's crinkled landmark
I divine the leylines
of your scent.
II
With you I reclaim lands
waterlogged, history bogged:
on Bohey’s raw hills
we navigate gradients,
search out the ruined tombs
of Tullyskeherny,
doorways of limestone
white as bone.
III
With you I am circling futures
the mind's latitudes
between trays of smoky tea
we cross Baltic blue seas,
skim ice water in Kvaloya,
drift with bergs in Jokulsarlon
where a midnight sun
is melting colours.
And the afternoons we make
are meadow sweet
puddled with sunlight
talking of places
and things to come ...
(c) Siobhan Logan 2011
