This Heart for You, For our Valentine's Day
February 9, 2015 at 6:00 a.m.
This Heart for You, For our Valentine's Day
when I was
still
in my twenties, I made my then husband
a couer la creme, cream heart
and he
bought me roses
now, today, entering my
crone age
I offer you this velvet in
barbed wire
rounded with lace and
leather heart
something more realistic
than Hallmark cards
and less cliche
than roses
for this is who I am now and
this is who
we are, a couple of
oldsters
who still giggle late at night
and keep
our neighbors awake, when
passion
takes us still, like
teenagers
at least once a month.
James Stansberry
James is a Seattle writer/cancer warrior/psychic/medium
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