I’m drawing Adding colors That are bright and Evocative Rich Shading Lining It’s glowing And sensual It’s wrong I take a black pencil to it I dull them I deaden them I kill them The live colors are What could be But are not Of the future So I mute them Weaken them I punish …
Haunting Beach towns In the vacant Autumn nights I wonder if my Footsteps make noise My passage evaporates With so much breeze The chill My leather jacket and scarf Collude to make me Invisible I pad down the leaf-strewn sidewalks Wondering if I’m actually Touching the concrete Or if I walk elevated across A cushion …
I roll us over Onto your back I look into your eyes Sky blue crystal And I tell you how I feel “I love you.” And I know it’s true because I want to cry You smile and kiss me “I love you, too, sweetheart.” And I know I won’t come And I suspect we’re …
My problem is I want everything I want to do and Try and Taste and Kiss and Play and Touch and Laugh at and Laugh with Everything I want all the sensations I want all the experience All the sights All the sounds All the stolen moments I’m ravenous for it And I pace and …
I wish for You Grace I wish for You Peace I wish for You Kindness and sympathy Softness, rhythm, warmth I want these things for You Because I seek them for myself And I believe if I can get them For You I can find them For me I wish strong embraces for You To …
A skipping rock Lays waste to hordes On the other side of the world Dashing thousands in Its ripples
There were times when I felt, Arms curled in, pressed to him Breathing in the skin of his chest His arm encircling my shoulders His knee flung lazily over my hip His sweet breath coming slowly, quietly, evenly Swaying the loose tendrils of my hair, That I felt utterly Loved And loved him utterly in …
It winds It comes in and out of focus It’s my belly that truly feels it The curiosity The nausea of impending repercussions I can’t make myself not do it I can’t talk myself out of it I cannot see a reason not to But, oh, the reasons to The feel The sweetness
The mettle of a woman Is forged in fire Hammered by adversity. She rises from the coals A phoenix fused into A juggernaut of strength And grace and accomplishment She raises everyone around her. Her laughter teases and cajoles The best out of the best of the best. I am not her. I flinch and …