For Elise & Steve on the Occasion of Just After Your Wedding (bonus)

from Other Honey by The Michael Character

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For Elise & Steve on the Occasion of Just After Your Wedding

The light hit all of us, but at our own angles—

When the moon reflects off of Boston and onto the Charles, it looks like the all the middlingly sized skyline columns of light are pointing right at you, and it feels like that for everyone—

That’s how it was when your light hit all of us

The universal filtered through singular experience

With no loss of latency

Like a modern miracle, but ancient

You didn’t write the vows for us, but witness was as good as baptism

And we were all made holy by your love for one another

See, even there—A Jewish service refracted through Christian iconography

But we’re all on the same page here, I think

Because it wasn’t just a union of two

It was communion, like, with a capital C

It was moksha

We were together

We were; together; because of you

In that moment the only I that could be dis-aggregated from the beauty was as a strip of wallpaper in a room to house the most resplendent piece in an art museum;

*I* became context for Whatever it is that you two have made for each other

I called it love earlier and so did you so let’s leave it at that for the moment

This is all to say that it was bliss to be reminded that love is an end unto itself

And I hope to frame that knowledge, I hope to hang it by mundane nail over every door

So We, like, capital W, We can renew ourselves in the unnoticed passings through of each ordinary moment with the lived memory of this, the day you gave the gift of your love to each other and held high the light to show us the way.

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from Other Honey, released September 7, 2019

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It's political music, whatever. Based in Boston, MA. Absolutely willing to drive very far to play for you and five of your vaguely alternative friends in your combination kitchen/laundry room. Hit me up. I'm fully serious.

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