green bean miracle
 Japanese beetles no match
 in Colorado
 

twenty years ago
 we met in a grungy place
 (nothing with this view)
 
 he would hardly speak
 so i filled him with my words
 (he offered kindness)
 
 now he turns forty
 the space between now and then
 filled with three daughters
 
 our journey goes on
 filled with words, kindness, love:
 what makes a marriage
 
 

our hot springs heaven
 with memories old and new
 (heat never gets old)
 

postcard of our state
 visit worth waiting years for
 nothing quite like it