For Delmore Schwartz

Sorting through parents'
piles of years of saved stuff
deep in a back shelf
I find their wedding album
that I'd never seen
that it seems they'd forgotten
and I want to know
why, though I already do
and also, I don't

I just wish it had been out
and we would have looked
at it as a family:
their spin on all the clichés
the eating the cake picture
the posed kiss picture
the just married car picture
all the dreams before
the responsibility