March 20, 2012

anyway & though

anyway.

though


i speak of our wine

and you speak of the characteristics of the soil and the weather that year, the variety of grapes,  the mood of the pickers and the stainless steel or the oak, the cellaring conditions and the cork, the number of bottles produced in this lot, the reputation of the vintner and the price to personal taste ratio, and how long this particular bottle had to breathe upon our counter and the temperature at pouring and the shape of the glass and the food with which it was served and the relationship between the people drinking 

and i speak of our love.

you speak of biological drive, the urge to one another and the evolutionary imperative for progeny, and of cultures which name this magnetism emotionally, weakly, and the blur between attraction and affection and the relevance thereof, and of complex variations within human experience, of liking and fondness, and associations--positive and negative, some of which do not conflict much with the commonly understood notion of "love", and of risk:  the repercussion of the intended and unintended connotations of this word in use.  


anyway.  and

though.