Tuesday
Sep092008
For The Love Of An Ear
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 I am in love with this man's ear.
When I woke up this morning, there it was in all its earness, the morning sun shining through it in soft shades of red and orange, outlining it in a soft halo of fine hair.
Perhaps it is because I had just opened my eyes from a vivid dream in which my cat, Oskar, confessed to me that he was John McCain, and then he showed me that he had John McCain's mouth, which completely creeped my shit out, but I thought that the Palinode's ear was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
It felt as though I were marvelling at a child. When children are asleep, their features look so blissful and idyllic, and that is how I saw the Palinode's ear in the early sun.
It seems strange now to relate it, because on the surface of things, it is just an ear, and he is my spouse of over seven years, and I have had many sightings of this ear since 1993, but this morning, it was new again. I loved it again for the first time. I wanted to eat it like buttered toast with brown sugar.
But then, because I was poking him in the back of the head with a camera lens, he woke up, so rather than ears, we shared coffee and snuggled under the blankets.
"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."
- Anne Sexton
Reader Comments (7)
Oh, well, golly. If this isn't the most beautiful thing I've read in a long time, I don't know what is.
That is lovely.
What a blessing to wake up and see love in that way. So simple yet so profound. Thanks for this today.
Also, remember this bliss for the lower times. Pull this happiness up and drown in it.
I know exactly what you mean :)
I get that feeling with my almost husband and my daughter :)
Like delectable toast with brown sugar!
I love the love and wonder of this post.
What a warm and loving way to greet the day. Delicious. Writing.
I wouldn't know about the ear.
ErinH
That was sweet. I shoved my ear into my woman's face just to see if she'd have the same reaction but all she did was ask me what the hell I was doing and bit me.
9:23 doesn't seem so early in the morning to me.
Okay, but honestly, fantastic post. I have felt this way myself.