Reception

For Nancy and John

a teenager with an inheritance of careful,  

i kept my heart beat slow until that august afternoon

when you two, freshly wed, danced to johnny b. goode, shoes off.

nothing of show or estimation, just love, 

beacon at the center of the center of the center,

both of you burning so bright even the uninitiated saw, clearly,

the only thing that has ever,

will always, matter.