Amy Secrist

Tag: marriage

  • An Embrace After Winter

    I sit at the kitchen counter, you come and slide your arm diagonally across my chest, above my left arm and beneath my right so now my head rests on the meat of your shoulder. I curl my arm around yours and lay my hand at your elbow. I feel my core release and you bear…

  • Christ’s Keeping

    We make this life together, our own dusty prints over the road; our own hands making up and turning down the beds; our own mouths tasting the bitter and the sweet, the salty and the sour; like Rumi’s chick pea and cook, we are each other’s teacher, hitting each other with the skimming spoon, boiling in our passions and in…

  • An Ode on the Eve of Our Anniversary

    Today’s clouds sit in the sky, scoops of ice cream on glass tables.  On a tiny mountain top we let our feast rest warm in our bellies, watch our kids run wild through the prairie grass.  The trees’ journey toward winter deepens, leaves like flames flare along the horizon, flash out of the dense green…