I could write a book on you.<\/p>\n
Lines mark boundaries, your hair an unwoven curtain.<\/p>\n
There are some places that not even the sun can touch you.<\/p>\n
I could write a novella of those eyes, dark sad depths that they are.<\/p>\n
A sonnet for your hands alone, a quatrain for your lips and<\/p>\n
a few disjointed lines for every bend. A line each for muscles;<\/p>\n
biceps, triceps, abdominals, pectoralis, the slope of trapezium, the tight lines<\/p>\n
of gluteals and quadricepts. A haiku for your jawline; diamond pattern<\/p>\n
refrain for your aquilanic features. A book for you, my love, to treasure<\/p>\n
when I slow with age, we both our own slow velocity to our literary end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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