the husband, the guest

Here he is again. To offend, inspire and be the best darn husband anybody ever deserved. Shane's Guest Post #2. Rules: jess may not touch or edit.

Jess is feeling burned out with daily blogging and working on her book, so I've been recruited to do a guest post.

I don't read her blog that often because I don't want her to feel like she needs to censor anything. Writing honestly is hard enough without me chirping in with "what did you mean by that" kind of comments. But I do secretly look periodically to make sure she's doing okay.

I noticed that she'd written that it's been 16 years since we started dating and it got me thinking about when we first started dating. We met in creative writing class at Capilano College. I was a young wanna-be poet. I was awful. And truthfully, my writing couldn't have been what she liked about me.

Especially since Jess was the best writer in our class. She just wrote in a truthful, wonderfully vulnerable, but snappy way.

In University she wrote a book of poetry. I'm currently holding the only remaining copy. I read it a few weeks ago for the first time in a decade and it reminded me of that time of our life.

I want to share with you one poem from it. To preface this, it's important to note that I hate poetry. I never read it anymore, and inwardly cringe when I think about it. But her's are so good, so that's why I want to share it with you. I picked this one because it is about the day just before we got together. I thought you might like it.

Remembrance day

On remembrance day
i chased you
through the grassy trail
of your old school
showing me
something
remembering
kissing games
in the soggy woods
when i caught you
our breaths wet & heavy
in the air
i wanted to kiss you but
walking back to the cement
it was easier

I was thinking that she should reissue this little poetry book for her blog readers. I think it would be a nice insight into what she was like as a younger women. I'm sure she'll be horribly embarrassed by it. But if you are interested, why don't you leave a comment and ask her to send you a copy. If enough people request it, I'll bet we can guilt her into doing it.

p.s. if Jess gets more than 15 requests, she's agreed to release it. So comment, god dammit!

shane
xxoo