HowISeeYou (to Juan)

Eager

Amusing

Genuine

Heartful

Amiable

Benevolent

Wholesome

Intimate

Brown

Short

Kissable

Cuddable

Tawny

Narrow waisted

Shouldered

Deep

Deep

Chocolate

Eyes

Carved

Grinning

Winking

Tickling

Twinkling

Asleep

Dreaming

Waking

Calming

Graceful

Friend

Lover

This

My love

Is

How

I

See

You

Allegory

We

Had

Truth

Courage

Humility

Clarity

Peace

Life

We

Have

Lies

Cowardice

Bravado

Delusion

War

End

Come

Back

You

That One Mid-Morning in November, 1963

I wrote this a few years ago

Harlan Didrickson's avatarHARLAN DIDRICKSON

“I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”   Matthew 5:28

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I’d admittedly forgotten some vague dots over the years until a tiny ember (resembling my aging mother’s voice) leaped through my firewall. She read to me an obituary of one Ms.
Daisy Polé the sole daughter and heiress of the late Mr. Raleigh (Buck) Polé. Ms. Polé, an unmarried woman and Mr. Polé, a widower since 1941 moved to Gilroy in the Santa Clara Valley in 1964 and accepted administration of the family’s lucrative portfolio of land ownerships including the keystone of Santa Clara, the Sebastiani Vineyard among others. a-1sebastianiIn 1916 his parents, M. Benoît-Pierre Polé of La Rogue Gageac, France, and his fiancé Miss Caroline Agnew of Tippah County, Missouri, entered into a 99-year periodic tenancy of the 4,467 acre vineyard of Mr. Samuele Sebastiani. This…

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LoveLove (to Juan)

Freckles

Toothy

Smiles

Dimples

Semi-sweet

Morsels

Pressed into

Buttery

Lids

Charcoal

Outlining

Succulent

Lips

Cheekbones

So high

Diving into

Those

Eyes

Chestnut

Torso

Wink

Giggles

Humidity

Temptation

Mysteries

Opulence

Cosset

Drowsiness

Dreams

Morning

Hello

Kisses

Shoulders

Hands

Simply

I

Love

Love

Downstream (for Juan)

Still

River

Cold

Currents

Calm

Beneath

Currents

Pull

Drag

Move

Struggle

Swim

Sink

Let

Go

Adrift

Taken to

New

Places

Deposited

Bankside

Rediscovery

Meet

Understand

Know

Love

Bliss

Failure

Return to

River

Taken

Away

This is

Life

Downstream