Tag Archives: poem
When I Am Kissing Her
What had I been before I knew you? Who am I now when you’re not with me? You have taken and changed me, from someone content to someone restless. I look out at the tar sands and I contemplate going … Continue reading
Inside Space
Beloved mine, I have watched stars cross the evening sky, laid beneath a hollow moon and known for what the owls and night spirits have called. In the evening’s calm, in the stillness that descends after the day-heat-madness, while the … Continue reading
Things You Discover
It isn’t the flimsy certificate that binds us, isn’t the words of the priest who tied the knots around our wrists and marked our faces with ash and blood. Bound by the old ways, what holds us together can’t be … Continue reading
Something About Her
There is something about her, something about her that’s more than perfect, more than true to life, more than I can explain. I don’t have any good reason to love her, any good reason to stay, except for how she’s … Continue reading
Wedding Vows
I don’t know if I will ever be as magnificent as you promise me I am, but I promise I will seek to find the man you see in me. I will seek to find the God you praise. I … Continue reading