52

52

We’re older now than

we first were, combined,

when we met,

two college kids who

dated three weeks

before we knew

we’d get married. 

Six months later,

we were. And we

rode the wave

of oil embargo and

Watergate and inflation

and more oil embargo

and lemons from Detroit

and a move north and

a house that wouldn’t 

sell south and a baby

and market crashes and

a father dying and a career

in flames and another baby

and a career catapulting

from depths to heights

in all of five months

and war and layoff and

working on our own

and then an urban school

district and then back

to the future and career

highs and lows and books

published and grandsons

and England and retirement

that really wasn’t and COVID

and more inflation

and a life still being lived

and we were once I and I and

now we’re we for 52 … 

that’s more than half a century,

and how many more forever.

The featured image is courtesy of Sam Keyes and is used with his kind permission for Cultivating.

Glynn Young

Glynn Young wrote his first story when he was 10 – a really bad mystery having something to do with a door behind a grandfather clock and a secret cave. At 14, he discovered Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, but he secretly wanted to write James Bond stories. At 21, he became a Christian, and the verse he was given, Philippians 1:6, became the theme of his life.

Glynn received a B.A. in Journalism from LSU and a Masters in Liberal Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. He spent his professional career in corporate public relations, and mostly executive speechwriting. Since 2009, he’s been an editor for Tweetspeak Poetry, writing a weekly column. Since 2011, he has published five novels in the Dancing Priest Series, the nonfiction book Poetry at Work, and the historical novel Brookhaven.

He and his wife Janet live in suburban St. Louis.

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