http://reneemarie.vox.com/library/posts/tags/stendhal/page/1/ excursions into art & life en Vox Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:16:03 -0400 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss stendhal http://reneemarie.vox.com/library/post/lamour.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Renee/ the p.r.) http://reneemarie.vox.com/library/post/lamour.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://reneemarie.vox.com/library/post/lamour.html?_c=feed-rss-full Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:16:03 -0400 <div> <span class="photo_container pc_m"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/barbararich/185697000/" title="L&#39;Amant"><img alt="L&#39;Amant" class="pc_img" height="180" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/185697000_e0161581d8_m.jpg" width="240" /></a></span> </div><p><br />I wanted you to have something waiting for you in case you checked.<br />We just had a wonderful tuck-in and are now in Paris, France.<br />We have a window on the Left Bank and a large bath.<br />We have hot chocolate croissants and two cafe au lait.<br /> I would kiss you now but your mouth is full of chocolate croissant.<br />I am admiring the polaroids of us lounging in bed.<br />Here you are wearing my underwear on your head.<br />And here you are reading <em>Men in the Off Hours</em> naked.<br /> Remember when I painted you nude in the Hotel Stratford?<br />You were so willing and lipstick appeared on an unlikely spot in the painting.<br />I&#39;ve decided to write a poem about our time on the Left Bank and this is it.<br /> Do you suppose it was the inspector in the mystery we just finished?<br />Paris is full of mysteries, just as you are full of mysteries...<br />I am full of L&#39;Occitane lavender lotion slathered liberally over my body.<br />I am awaiting spontaneous enlightenment from my guru.<br /> You are no cold potato, zipping up, I see you.<br />You are no dirty locomotive, you are a sunflower, Sunflower.<br />I wanted you to have something fabulous superterrific in case you checked.<br />And so I&#39;ve written these lines for you, L&#39;Amour, sweetheart.<br /> Just as Stendhal said, 20 lines a day, genius or not. </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://reneemarie.vox.com/library/post/lamour.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e4b25ecbe2b00f48cebbf510003?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry paris poem l'amour stendhal l'amant men in the off hours