Like an
enchanting poem,
I will go over you
again and again
until I’ve memorized
even
the
spaces.
Tag: romance
On Fire
As I think about you,
it takes
less and less oil
to light myself
on fire.
Firestone Friday: Poem X
Literature and love
perform much the same:
a flowery dressing,
a crafted seduction,
and an uncovering
that makes the reader
to quiver.
On Inebriation
They ask
if I’ve ever been
black out drunk,
and I can’t help
but to rememeber
how intoxicated
I was
when I first saw you.
Touchstone Tuesday: Poem VI
It’s not that most connections
carry no love;
it’s that so many loves
can exist only in one space —
can survive only at the bar
or breathe only within an app.
To uncover a connection
worth pursuing
is to find a love that can flourish
at home
and in the streets —
Saturday night
and Sunday morning.
On Longing
Every night my soul leaves,
and every morning, it crawls back, exhausted.
One night I followed it
down old paths
past familiar trees
and, all at once,
I uncovered to where my soul
wandered
as I joined my soul
in watching you.
Firestone Friday: Poem IX
A volume with new binding,
strong, lusty, erect,
a spine that curls only
as I draw my fingers across it;
a form so forbidding,
and defiantly unyielding
that resists opening
until I whisper its title,
calling it by name,
and it finally
gives in.
Faith, Health, and Other Musings 