My wife with sunflower eyes

(on our tenth anniversary)

I remember,

your sunflower eyes,

reminding me

to be the way I want to be.

I remember,

North Shore, the Poconos,

keeping our toes from dangling in Seneca Lake,

airing out a room in Escalante,

oh, do you remember what we did in Arizona?

I remember,

Ten years now

it has been you and I

thinking about what makes us.

Memories,

good more than bad.

I remember,

you and I became we

and we became the four of us.

So many similarities and so many differences,

like our numbers in bed.

So grateful for ten.