Tag Archives: love
Freckle Archipelago
We made a plan to island hopacross a southern sea.Our breakup caused that plan to pop,yet on her own went she. But islands with their shores of sandhold less appeal for methan those I traveled with my hand,in love, caressingly: … Continue reading
Friendship Anguish
Friends with Kristin,so grateful to be,so happy to be,friends with Kristin… But now when I enterthe rooms that we kissed in,the rooms of my home,the rooms she is missed in,the world seems a placeso hard to exist in. Friends with … Continue reading
Wonder Return
Our childhoods left us with loads of trauma,although we weren’t aware of it back then:I’d land toy spaceships in a diorama,and you wrote eighty pen pals with your pen. Yet trauma which we carried would explode,like lightning in our synapses, … Continue reading
Floral Care
The flowers that I plant each have a card,pushed in the soil or stuck on the pot,so that the floral care won’t be too hardas they take root within the garden plot. Instructions tell me how much light it needs,the … Continue reading
At First
For Kristin While many loves apparently can strikeas lightning does, without providing warning,and skip the phase when two would simply likeand leap to instant passion ever-warming, and while such love commences at first sightand blossoms swiftly from a field of … Continue reading
Cosmic Response*
for Marion Shore Like stars depleted of their fuel explode and leave behind an all-consuming hole, a love that burns through its sustaining load may likewise leave a husk more black than coal that swallows light, and hope, and everything … Continue reading
Vision Feast
for Amy Your sense of sight is good, but you don’t see your beauty that for others is so clear, your awesomeness that’s obvious to me and evident to all who hold you dear. Your look reflects your personality, like … Continue reading
Amiga
Your face may not have launched a thousand ships, but when my mood has sunken and I’m sore as if from shark bites and a storm that whips, it’s been for shipwrecked me my native shore. Your voice may not … Continue reading
Valentine Ashes
Since young men who weren’t wed made better soldiers, an emperor banned marriages for them. An empire’s weight fell squarely on their shoulders, their blood worth more than any engagement gem. Yet Valentine, a priest, in secret, wed men to … Continue reading
Maestro
My friend, you are for me a special teacher of things that I could never learn from books, though others see in you a different feature, that I see too: the cuteness of your looks. Your love for everyone is … Continue reading
Snapshot Couplets 