<\/p>\n
On the first day of spring<\/p>\n
I drove by that place you took me once<\/p>\n
because your father was still<\/p>\n
building those beautiful houses<\/p>\n
that were still only bones of themselves.<\/p>\n
We could only see the darkness<\/p>\n
that lay between the framed wood.<\/p>\n
It filled our imaginations with delight,<\/p>\n
and so we parked and kissed deeply.<\/p>\n
Now those moments are etched<\/p>\n
in our hearts like matching tattoos or the stained-glass windows<\/p>\n
on the finished house that even your mother\u2019s strident disapproval<\/p>\n
couldn\u2019t remove. I want to share this with you<\/p>\n
as the sun melts the snow and leaves.<\/p>\n
The crocuses are blissfully naked and dripping.<\/p>\n
This is the moment I chose for you to relive with me now<\/p>\n
as it should have been then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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