To Marriages That Last and Those That Didn't

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excerpt from The Blue Robe
BY WENDELL BERRY

How joyful to be together, alone
as when we first were joined
in our little house by the river
long ago, except that now we know

each other, as we did not then;
and now instead of two stories fumbling
to meet, we belong to one story
that the two, joining, made. And now

we touch each other with the tenderness
of mortals, who know themselves:



art by Sarah Faragher

Comments

  1. LydiaSeptember 29, 2008 at 12:53 AM

    lovely, the prose and the art.

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  2. CityKinSeptember 29, 2008 at 5:32 AM

    Did you see him last week at NKU?

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2008 at 6:50 AM

    Love the poem, wish I could relate, but I have been alone too long, perhaps some day.

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2008 at 7:23 AM

    Love
    is a melting pot.

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  5. UnknownSeptember 29, 2008 at 6:57 PM

    I missed him at NKU. Damn work. Did you go and was he fabulous?

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  6. AnonymousOctober 4, 2008 at 7:59 AM

    Tenderness, I think belongs to youth and not maturity.

    Tenderness is what I crave.

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  7. Sarah FaragherJune 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM

    Love Wendell Berry. Love that painting, too. But I must tell you I did not paint it! N.C. Wyeth painted it, and it usually hangs at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, in the Wyeth Center.

    However, you *can* see my paintings at www.sarahfaragher.com if you wish.

    Best, Sarah Faragher

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