Draft of a poem: "Love you to death, and beyond"

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A conversation at dinner last night
reminded me to write things down
when I'm thinking of them.
Or of you.

This will go through revisions,
hopefully many.
But for now it's a starting point.

I see you.

In every flower that blooms --
tree that leaves --
bee that buzzes --
wasp that stings.

I see you in the ice on frozen driveways,
and the water flowing in Winters Run,
and the steam rising from cow manure
dropped in a cold Jarrettsville dawn.

In pine trees, and weeping willows, and crabapples.

I hear you in the chatter of chickens and
the chewing of cows, in political discourse
and private confessions, and in everyone's
laughter.

I hear you in groups, in tete-a-tetes, and
in silence.

You are there every time I darn a sock, or
change my oil, or go to work, or do my taxes,
or come home, or listen to music, or read a book.
Right there -- and generally adding your opinion!
(We don't always agree, but it always has value.)

I touch you in flannel and in velvet,
in rusted steel and the fur of animals,
in fuzzy sweaters and cotton/polyester,
in the rocks of the field
and the bones of my hands.

I taste you in overcooked roast beef
and fresh asparagus, in white rice
and red spices -- cinnamon, paprika,
and catsup.

I smell you in fresh-cut wood
and in turpentine, in new-mown grass
and in bales of straw, in summer's air
and autumn's fall.

(Oh, can't forget lemon-scented Pledge.
Otherwise, I hate lemon -- just about
as much as you seem to love it.)

And best of all, in all my senses,
I can perceive you in others'
hearts and minds.

Whatever you eventually reincarnate as, be it
Buddha or beetle, I know one thing for sure.

Your spirit, is gonna cause some mischief.

To poets everywhere, even ones I don't like.
And for the one I love above all others.

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