you peel back my layers slowly gently reverently one by one petals of a zinnia bud I take a risk resist the instinct to stay
Tag: Intimacy
Falling
I stand before you more naked more stripped down than I have ever been vulnerable unsteady I have always thought falling in love would be
Secret Heart – Christine E. Ray
how many times had she revealed her secret heart of hearts? she didn’t know exactly but suspected that sightings were rarer than those of the
Saturday Afternoon Poetry
bare skin glides against my rough edges like warm sand you buff my contours smooth mouth tracing the trail of my vertebrae you become cartographer of
Broken Angel
his broken halo still gleamed dull gold his haunted eyes a kaleidoscope of all that he had seen I could taste the loss in his
When I am Small
cold small half pain half numb compressed in on myself until I am hard light cocooned in the strait jacket I spun will you enfold
The Calculation of Light Years
The distance between us is not easily calculated using miles or kilometers or fathoms or light years this distance is a living, breathing, mutable
The Shaping of Clay
there are days there are nights when the only thing keeping me from sliding completely into the abyss from dissolving into something shapeless nameless is
