Still Life (Marriage)

[ellajam]

Once we climbed through what came
between us, we were granted our shine

Pillows smell almost abstract, our lightness
a Klee that never changes, even
thirty-five years after the paint has dried

Hi, 71, I haven't spent much time with Klee in a while so I want to thank you for that fun.

I liked climbed/came, while the first two lines are solid I have to say that I also read "shrine" the first few times, did you edit or is it something else?

"Pillows smell almost abstract" still loses me. I  would be interested in a lightness that, like a Klee, keeps changing long after the paint is dry.

I may just need more time with this than I have given it, a bit early too comment (for me) but Klee called for it after I read the comment that he might not be helping the poem. We disagree.