Tag Archives: love

because you made me smile this is yours

this is yours because today you coaxed out a smile from where it hid in a corner, pale and dusty and it flew to my lips and stayed sweet because your gifts are a rush of hummingbird wings on my eyelids, a … Continue reading

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This brush of mind touching mind

This brush of mind touching mind even more than skin meeting skin is a gift, present even in your absence as I pluck your dreaming self like a far-straying violet, and bring you on my walk through woods and waterfalls taking in … Continue reading

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transience

brightness I yearn to taste faster than snowflake on my tongue melting sweet or cupped sunlight escaping palms unkeepable joy still skipping this shared and witnessed perfect transience  

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communication 101

there is eloquence inside silence in letting the eyes speak for themselves without framing so often lips lie, tongues cut and tattle let us move beyond anything spoken and just be, and be just that together

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dawn

the touch that teased you awake that traced your jawline, your eyelids that you brushed off as early sunlight once those eyes opened did some part of you open, too, still half dreaming lean into that heat gently for a moment … Continue reading

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breathe

I want to take you into me necessary as air, and as sweet so close our breathing matches my inhalation/your exhalation blended breath

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for you

Dreaming I will wake walking with you & waking I will carry your name a secret kept under my tongue that begs to be shouted

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