I Needed this Day

Scene Two from a Marriage

ski day reverie
filled with powder grins,
soft turns, silent flakes

always a long day
yet happiness takes its time
falling from the sky

twenty-five years back
he asked me to marry him
so began our lives

the sound of leaf breeze
is impossible to miss
from the top? perfect

there’s just nothing like 
five giddy little-teen girls
breathing us all in

our poor Daddy 
outnumbered seven to one
without one complaint

June: a harried month
with all the joys and sorrows
that make up this life

the mountains have called 
and windswept lakes make us glow 
all these years later

my par for the course
after a week filled with loss 
(my man found the gem)

twenty-three years back
i married this blue-eyed boy
who brings me my sun