Yellow Swamp Violets

This poem is hard for me to share as it is where I and my beloved Christine started many years ago.  For you,Christine. R.I.P.




                                                        
                                                      You ask only
                                                             for two small
                                                                                 tokens---
                                                        A strip of
                                                             white birch bark
                                                                                 and
                                                        the petals from
                                                             a yellow swamp
                                                                              violet,
                                                        and I ask
                                                             how can these
                                                                              compare
                                                        with what you
                                                             have given in
                                                                            return?