11-Month Anniversary

 

 

 

 

 

Today, my man Bruce and I celebrate our 11-month anniversary. My heart is very happy and I am pleased to continue our journey together.

 

We have been together without interruption since March 19 (51 days) and every of those days were sunny and joyful. We have been shopping for grocery together, exercice together, clean-up and laundry, and recently we went biking together.

 

Once a week, on Saturday, we meet with my brother/sister-in-law and my 3 sisters/brothers-in-law for a ZOOM cocktail and we started playing a game together: every weekday, one of the 5 chooses a word and we all have to take a picture depicting that word - the following week, it is the spouse to do so. So on Saturday evening, at the ZOOM cocktail, we showed our 5 pictures to others and we vote for the best picture each day. We are keeping scores and the winner will be treated at the restaurant by the rest of the group after COVID-19.

 

So my Man B, I want 11 more months, 11 more years and many other years after that.

 

Here is a Love Sonnet #XI by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda:

 

« I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.

Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.

Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day

I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,

your hands the color of a savage harvest,

hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,

I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,

the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,

I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,

hunting for you, for your hot heart,

like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue. »

 

May we have a beautiful journey together.

 

Your Man Forever Michel