kmk

Where's my delightful new American friend? I hope wherever you are it involved taking wonderful pictures of yourself and the land.
I am a l'Oreal man myself - no, not for me. One of my many roles is as hair colourist to my wife. Cherry, I think, is the colour.
I can't find a poem in thanks for your Neruda. Lorca has too many knives and vicious moons. Donne is just too clever by half sometimes.
But this might do, from Nessie Dunsmuir, for a Winter Lover....

I should have been more scrupulous
of that first hour.
More measured against future loss
the live and lovely hazard where
soul signalled soul
through body's tenderness.
But what had loss to do with us
held there and holding all
the blinding universe?

Stranger in my arms
man clown and angel
bearing like flowers
the everlasting annunciation.

I do not know and never shall
what grave or joyful mystery
inhabits your head's holiness,
but my strong heart has made your ease,
my eyes inherit a dumbstruck world.
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I'm off for a weekend of music, and will return with an otterhound, who will be able to curl up at my feet as I work.