Edisto, South Carolina

Last weekend, my sweetheart and I took a weekend trip to Edisto, South Carolina, one of my very favorite places on earth. We were there for three nights before heading back home to Knoxville via Charleston, but I was so busy having fun during the trip that I almost forgot all about leaving the poem.

I left the 33rd section of the poem at a restaurant called The Pavilion that overlooks the Ocean on Edisto Beach. There we gorged ourselves on crab legs and celebrated the fact that Shawn had asked me to marry him the night before (spoiler alert: I said yes). There's really nothing I can compare to all you can eat crab legs and knowing you're going to spend the rest of your life with the best man ever.

"Only the kernel of every object nourishes;
Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
Where is he that undoes stratagems and envelopes for you and me?"