To the woman I knew ( Read more... )

She is on my mind ( Read more... )

Today I read my own old words with new eyes ( Read more... )

I can tell by the way he closes the door that he is unhappy about his night ( Read more... )

Last night we sit in the car in the dark ( Read more... )

Every night, just as my body hints at the beginning of sleepiness, a fist clenches under my sternum and whispers desperately, unceasingly
"Are we ok?? Is everything going to be ok??
... am I safe?"

She pulls me down to whisper in my ear as they are leaving, pausing a moment, once my ear is in position, before she has gathered the courage to breathily gush, "Is going to be my new uncle ( Read more... )

Today you asked me, "Are you really ok with us being just like this ( Read more... )

It feels sometimes like my soul has always been trying to leap out of my body to get to you. To finally -after centuries of near misses, it feels like- join with you in some way that is so beyond love, beyond sex, beyond bodies and go HOME ( Read more... )

An ice cold feeling rises from my chest to the base of my throat. Moving into my back, and oscillating between sweating and freezing. My heart changes. Not really faster, but just harder. Louder. Moving into my head, rocking my body.