By Scott & Dina Rhoden Bend, Oregon The Yellow Bells We met in a PhD program for creative writing, which is to say: we met in a room full of people who believed that metaphor could save us. Or at least soften the blow. We were both writing poems back then—Dina with her fierce, luminous lines that could hold grief without breaking, and Scott with his songs that always seemed to be half prayer, half punchline. We were wildly in love—with each other, and with language. We still