Articulation of same-sex love

Until I die there will be those moments, moments seeming to rise up out of the ground like Macbeth’s witches, when his face will come before me, that face in all its changes, when the exact timbre of his voice and tricks of his speech will nearly burst my ears, when his smell will overpower my nostrils. Sometimes, in the days which are coming—God grant me the grace to live them—in the glare of the grey morning, sour-mouthed, eyelids raw and red, hair tangled and damp from my stormy sleep, facing, over coffee and cigarette smoke, last night’s impenetrable, meaningless boy who will shortly rise and vanish like the smoke, I will see Giovanni again, as he was that night, so vivid, so winning, all of the light of that gloomy tunnel trapped around his head.

From James Baldwin's novel, Giovanni's Room

Wondrous, barring the part where the spectre of Giovanni is said to rise up like that of Macbeth's witches! I like the fact that it is less cerebral and a trifle more emotional than Virginia Woolf's professions of similar sentiments to a fellow female lover.