Happy Valentine's Day 2014

Wishing you all a Happy Valentine's Day

My friends, readers, followers, and fellow fans

I don't have a Valentine's of my own 

But I wish a Happy Valentine's Day to my two Favorite 

Fantasy Valentines

Thoughts of them keep me warm on this very snowy winter's day

Richard Armitage and Sean Bean 

 Sonnet XI

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.

Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.

Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day

I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,

your hands the color of a savage harvest,

hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,

I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,

the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,

I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,

hunting for you, for your hot heart,

like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

By Pablo Neruda

Let it Snow