Category Archives: Love Poems
It Doesn’t Mean A Thing
She prays to pull words from the ether, to make worlds real. She half-sings, a low note of sacred light, deep in his throat. She thinks of me. She sits at the henge. She waits for sun and shadow to … Continue reading
Icarus
Mete out the blood, drop by drop, beat by beat. I can hear you in my veins, feel you etched along the inside of my bones, an electric drone, a humble buzz, declaring me your hive, filling each cell with … Continue reading
Dress
Wearing the rough worn fabric of your kisses leaves a chafe along my neck and thigh and heart — your touch has never been satin, your gaze has never been silk. You’re the sackcloth and ashes of love, marking me … Continue reading
White Collar
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been a lifetime since my last confession. Would someone please just hit me, already?
In The Coming Dark
I knew you, before I became another. I held you, kissed you, before I was promised. Childhood secrets, things shared behind closed doors — hopes and dreams and fears. And if I am never the one your father would choose … Continue reading