"kick me, kick my right leg."
The train pulled into the station in a hiss of steam, all those around me grabbed their bags excitedly and hurried to get off, I could hear the cheers of the waiting crowds, they weren't for me though, they were...
Here between the great false dawn of the reflected cityFrom our kitchen window—Friday night—And the weedy dark of weekend’s oasis;Here, our cool-cocktailed nights, betweenThe small truss of parenthetical sleepSlept, naps napped, love made;Here, within the grotto, the inlet, the sheltered...
"Come follow the tracks to my heart"
Each night beneath the kindly moon’s soft radianceWe make again that joyful connection of loveVulnerable in our emotional nakednessAs we bare the most profound feelings of our heartsAll too soon the hour of parting is upon usCatching us unaware in our...
"A little poem about falling, falling down and getting up again"
Bec joined my judo class when we were seventeen,Black hair, black belt, bright smile, barely five feet tall.The first time we touched, sparks flew in my heart,I flew through the air, and forgot to break my fall.I fell head over...
"The good earth, the boundless sky..."
O, love and summer, you are in the dreams and in me.--Walt Whitman, The Sleepers Wednesday was the last day of my little lawn service business. It was like so many other days in that summer of 1979, hot and close, the...
"The pain of someone breaking your heart ..."
Your tore atthe very fabric of my soulripping outmy heart from withinTossing itupon the floorlike a piece of rubbishbefore stomping on itCrushing all hopeof finding true loveby your crueltorment and liesLeft shakenin the corner of our rooma timid kittenshaken to...
Are you ecstasy?I feel deep joyWhen I know he isSoon to be with me.Are you agony?I feel great miseryWhen I am desolateWondering when it will end.Are you love?I feel intense affectionHe completes meI would be empty without.Are you hate?I feel...
