Anne Rice Instagram – Today we celebrate the birthday of Stan Rice, Anne’s late husband, lost to brain cancer 2002. He would have turned 79. Stan was the love of Anne’s life from the moment they met in high school in Richardson, Texas. As a young artist and then tentured professor in the San Francisco Bay area, he was hailed as an “Adonis poet”. His looks and confidence served as Anne’s inspiration for the vampire Lestat. They were married as teenagers and remained so until Stan’s passing. While his career as a painter blossomed towards the end of his life, he also published several volumes of poetry during those later years as well. One of them, “The Radiance of Pigs”, featured this poem, “Early Spring”
EARLY SPRING
Silver lipstick is
On the japanese plum
Leaves. We are in our second stage of love.
After flesh falters, after
The eyes we know look at us
As a stranger.
It’s early spring again.
Nature’s voluptous skeleton
Sits up!
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