while listening to old silver against worn porcelain, I measure refracted sunbeams against your radiance. my cap and gown reflection in your prism eyes bends

Romance is not just between a pretty she and a dark him Romance may happen between the naked river flowing restlessly through the hard limbs

I put one song on a playlist ten times and then hit shuffle and repeat I take a shower that’s hot as hell in which

Two Hearts Make a Sonnet My heart and yours       alike in a myriad ways the same strong muscle       the porous receptivity

To circle clandestine doldrums of lust Is a delicate sport Coated in amorous consumption, Rough hands clinging to melding flesh Where I succumb to pulsing

Emily Dickinson   a lovely test perched in her throat                                            like a song bird                                       waiting to fly                    from the hyoid bone —                                      for decades

Grind my bones, my love, And stir them into tea. Keep Me close to you by inhaling that Calcified steam Fragrant with all that ails

I knew I loved you in the bushes, whispering don’t wake the chicks their eggs, their mothers afterwards you lifted me onto shoulders pressing doorbells,

We remain where we are told, while the power is still on. We fear what dark and silence could reveal to them about us. Whatever

When I leave you, It won’t be out of anger, It won’t be out of jealousy. It won’t be for another woman, And it won’t

beauty brings joy     not sadness yet somehow my heart breaks small pieces     at the overbearingness the hardness     the shape

down the way to woo me nowadays nine letters a bad habit of yours that keeps me up at night seven letters the colour I

Such foolish beings we are, throwing ourselves against love, our bones still fragile from our last deliberate impact, learning nothing but what we wish to

We cracked the ice when we crossed Heart Pond   while the trees turned white on the churchyard hill.   And the fire we set

I made you a vow of paradise Though I knew I could not find the time To show you how much I cared and treasured