Between
For Sidney and Tippet
On the day between your births
As chance orbits map
The moon and earth
So they seem to overlap,
Or, like the space between
The magnet and its filings,
Share invisible affinities,
The pull between our island
And the sea, when
The point of one and one
Is actually the ampersand,
The way a sunset bends
The sun, – in their distant swoon
Sometimes passions run
Together, and loves often
End where they begin,
As on this day you pledged your stars,
Linking cryptically your lives to ours.
October 3rd, December 31st, 2020, Kaiholu
Credits
This is about things we all know are real, and yet you couldn’t prove one of them, those serendipities of chance, coincidence, and whim which magnetize our lives and loves, the way parents produce amazing children, as Sidney and Tippet produced Cathy.