French and Spanish

  French is sweet, but chilly. When you wake up, French will be looking out the window into a clear morning light with a slight not-frown. All the blankets will be kicked to the floor and you’ll feel the sharp of the new day. You’ll ask what’s wrong but French will reply “Nothing.” And you’ll hold French and it will be because you make everything okay, so long as French is by your side. French will whisper to you and sing to you and take you on strolls in the rain when the wind is a blade blowing softly across the Earth. French is smooth. French has impeccably cut nails and is groomed pristine even if it takes longer for French to be ready to leave home than you really like. French will be, in bed, what you want because French pays attention to all your noises and all your shudders and knows just how to make you feel exquisitely alive. French is the human condition put into a painting put into a museum.

    Spanish is fierce, and warm. Spanish has an endless family but you can tell them apart because they live far away so some of their habits are all a little different. Spanish will take you on a hike up a mountain and ride a waterfall back down, hand supportive on your waist. Spanish sees you to sleep with the covers pulled up to your shoulders and wakes you with passionate kisses and breakfast and the sound of nearby birds. It will be in the afternoon because Spanish lets you sleep in. Spanish will dance with you, fast and loose, but teach you how until you’re twirling Spanish and holding Spanish close. There’s dirt under Spanish’s fingernails and on Spanish’s knees and Spanish has some scars. You gain some scars, being with Spanish, but they just mean that you are living your life uncloistered and unfettered. Spanish is spicy and witty. Spanish, in bed, is what you need, because Spanish intuitively intimately knows your heart and soul. Spanish is the robust reality of the moment expressed in smiles and turns and if you’re by the ocean Spanish will smell of salty spray and fried food and green plants.