{"id":10466,"date":"2009-01-08T23:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T04:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/?p=10466"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:13","slug":"just-another-anniversary-as-special-as-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2009\/01\/08\/just-another-anniversary-as-special-as-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"just another anniversary — as special as ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy anniversary to Ed and Laurice Markowski. ..<\/em><\/strong> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

T<\/strong><\/em>oday (Elvis Presley’s birthday) is the 21st wedding anniversary of my friends Laurice and Ed Markowski<\/a>, of Auburn Hills, Michigan.\u00a0 Twenty-one isn’t of those “special” milestone anniversaries.\u00a0 But, with Ed, it doesn’t have to be.\u00a0 He’s been regularly telling me for the past few years how lucky he was to find Laurice, and he’s been even more effusive about her as their anniversary approached this past week.<\/p>\n

When I introduced Ed and his haiku here at f\/k\/a<\/em> in March 2005, I said:<\/p>\n

I’m touched by Ed’s ability to present the joys and dignity of
\nblue-collar life, and the romance found in the mundane
\nmoments of married life.<\/p>\n

Here is a bouquet of anniversary and everyday poems of love by Ed Markowski, inspired by Laurice, the love of his life.<\/p>\n

\n

anniversary
\nwe dress
\nfor bed<\/p>\n

\n

in love…
\nwe follow a snow covered road
\ninto the fog<\/p>\n

\n

anniversary dinner
\nthese long strands
\nof melted mozzarella<\/p>\n

\n

anniversary day
\nmy wife & i
\nassemble a treadmill<\/p>\n

\n

anniversary day
\ni decide to take
\nthe long way home<\/p>\n

\n

in the bedroom window
\nas we unwind this afternoon
\nin a holding pattern<\/p>\n

\n

carnival breeze…
\nsharing a bowl
\nbehind the tilt-a-whirl<\/p>\n

\n

\n

\n

\n

evening mist
\nthe moth in her hair
\nlight grey<\/p>\n

\n

summer love
\nbite by bite
\nwe share the first ripe plum<\/p>\n

hunting season
\ni read the inscription
\ninside my wedding band<\/p>\n

\n

city snow
\nwe laugh over wedges
\nof lemon meringue<\/p>\n

house of mirrors
\ni promise my wife
\ni’ll change<\/p>\n

\n

only the waterfall
\njust as it was…
\nsecond honeymoon<\/p>\n

\"\" … by ed markowski
\n“anniversary day” –\u00a0\u00a0 bear creek haiku<\/em> (Spring 2002)<\/p>\n

bonus<\/em>: One more from 2009:<\/p>\n

silver anniversary
\ni still take
\nthe quick route home<\/em><\/p>\n

. . . and one from the summer of 1987:<\/p>\n

in love…
\ngniklaw emoh
\nsdrawkcab<\/p>\n

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Happy anniversary to Ed and Laurice Markowski. .. Today (Elvis Presley’s birthday) is the 21st wedding anniversary of my friends Laurice and Ed Markowski, of Auburn Hills, Michigan.\u00a0 Twenty-one isn’t of those “special” milestone anniversaries.\u00a0 But, with Ed, it doesn’t have to be.\u00a0 He’s been regularly telling me for the past few years how lucky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2IO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12071,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions\/12071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}