Marriage

A man and a woman
joined by newspaper pages
culture to politics
sit so still
I’m not sure
if they’re there
at all. She
breathes, turns a
ruffled folio, and
like a dancer moving
around a partner,
he folds a great
page in two, and
peers up
in expectation of what
he needs to know.

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