There are days And nights Where the only thing Keeping me from Sliding completely into the abyss From becoming a shapeless Nameless blob of ectoplasm Is your skin against my skin Your mouth against my mouth Grounding me Calling me home Even when the knowledge Has started to slip away from me Your body remembers … Continue reading Clay
no lipstick sits upon my dresser top no long-handled brush graces my hair for 100 nightly strokes bras panties nestle neatly in the upper drawer in practical cottons not a bow or piece of lace to be found faint lines around the eyes silver threaded through close-cropped hair betray my age but do not give … Continue reading Ain’t I A Woman? – Christine E. Ray
Won’t you stay,My love? Outside snow falls steadyGusted by north windTapping at our windowInside these wallsA fire burns SoftlySo softlySpread yourRaven hairUpon my pillow GentlySo gentlyWe will unfoldOur layersLike origami flowers Reveal theTreasure at the coreOffer it like pearlsThat dissolveOn our tongues Won’t you stay my love?turn the night onnow Won’t you stay my love?Turn … Continue reading Turn the Night On- Christine E. Ray & Stephen Fuller
unwrapping you thrill of opening new box of crayons curated my favorite colors you taste Granny Smith Apple Plum Wild Strawberry Jazzberry Jam your vibrancy Razzmatazz Radical Red Scarlet Cerise your soul Forest Green Pine Green Midnight Blue Periwinkle Blue Bell Royal Purple Wisteria our night music Outer Space Silver Black Robin Egg Blue Cerulean … Continue reading Color You Mine
Brave & Reckless 