I was close to you for so long and it was only through words at first,and to know I'm forever puncturedby something not made of skin or steel,to be torn from different wombsand always feel that you neverentirely left its fleshy...

You'll already have my name but sometimesI forget the pull this will imply.You still took my hand and beganto gently instruct me in the dark,I used to need lights for this,to slowly part the unknown.Everything can be learned from there.It...

What is it that I'm so afraid of?To never feel your fingertips hush my lipsbefore I spill everything I'll never say againand your incandescent eyes will burn brighteras if to say you already know what I hold inside.To be reminded...

Jasmine

"A rewrite of a much older poem"

I knew the shape of your face as well as my own, but true contact marks us deeper than skin, beyond flesh and vapor into the ether,realizing that we can never go backto a world's beautiful axis without being suspended inside its crippling...

I didn't know it could hurt back then,we were drunk on bliss and sweet wine,glowing in ways the young always do,a raw light through us that can bealmost too dangerous to touch.It was all instinct and velocity,we'd come to know...

A Hard Offer To Refuse

"This is a poem for a Lush member asking for her story to be written by me."

I write my stories for my entertainmentYou seduce me with your lack of obtainmentI offer to tell your taleAnd you offer the Holy GrailHow can I resist such an offerWhen you don’t want into my cofferYou say you will give...

Summer songs trespass from her lipsand the words glow inside meas we yearn and search for frictionbut we were looking for miracles,something that can pulse beyond skin.And ecstasy will still burst,will roar between us,frames shuddering in the night.Summer songs trespass...

The mark will live on through these bodies,we're already disappearing into one another,it enters quietly and in that deep silenceyou're like a nocturnal flower blooming unseen,its wet shivery petals exposed in the moonlightas proof that all beautiful things eventually part.I...

I was already unfolding before your hand took mine,and we had so many questionsabout words that only soulmatesshould impart through the mistwhen knowing there has to beso much more to you.I was already moving through you by then,that already belonged to...