Category Archives: Love Poems
Play On
Oh you, you’ll be bad for business, you. You’ll be the death of me, the death of all I know and love. Your eyes are just like his. Just like I wanted mine to be. It’s too late in the … Continue reading
What’s Another Word For Brilliance
You speak secrets; you tell me what you will share of yourself and it is mighty, an oak in a field of blighted wheat. You speak of love; you offer it forth as the child does the short-stemmed flower to … Continue reading
You Call Me A Liar
You would not like the real me. I tell you this all the time. I tell you this as I take off my coat, my sweater, my mask, my face. I tell you this as I unzip my skin. I … Continue reading
Five Ways Of Looking
I. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder at the forks in the road. Paths not taken. Discoveries not made. How would they have turned out? No different than anyone else looking back on their lives, but I feel infinitely ill-prepared … Continue reading
100 Words: Reach/Drown
I realize you’re drowning. Should I just stand by the river and watch as you go below? I can’t not plunge in up to my elbows and pull you back out, pull you above, give you breath. Open your eyes, … Continue reading