Tag Archives: love

Lois (a love poem)

it was simply her for him, and he hers when they let themselves scale all their losses piled up & sealed in that stone mountain between them how easy they made it look, that climb to reach each other without … Continue reading

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the problem with tarot

the problem with tarot & other divination is simply this– why shuffle a deck of cards to get an obscure answer to the wrong question when you can simply frame your lover’s face in your palms tilt his chin up … Continue reading

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if I could speak words

if I could speak words into being on a small  scale I would whisper you here

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her ritual

they need balloons in heaven she says & every year on her mother’s birthday she buys a dozen red ones & looses their ribbons all at once watching until sky swallows all that redness she calls remembering & I call … Continue reading

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if gravity

if gravity moves us closer to the solid core the desire of matter earth holds for us a stone hunger lightly expressed so as to keep what is loved unbroken then, perhaps this overwhelming pull towards you can be expressed but … Continue reading

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when you smile my name

this feeling opens from the toes up hums joy deeper than sweet more gentle than any hands & belongs to you

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love in quotation marks

that word I use to celebrate my commitment to chocolate & coffee more than I do people so much so it loses visceral force spoken but your definition is not so much that flowering into an us that is more than word … Continue reading

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