I use my key on the lockRemembering our life togetherAs I go through my trinket boxThe box sits on my dresserA picture of our wedding dayI can feel the happiness sharedWe stood in the archwayIt's where our love was declaredI...
remembering
Broken heart
"Will she ever love again?"
For the first time in a long timeShe dreads the walk up to her roomUsually, he is there to reassure herAnd hold her tight. But not tonightHe made his choiceTo toss her asideAnd crush her Christmas wish. She looks around...
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
"Remembering a brief sexual encounter"
Sitting in the coffee shop in the park last Sunday morning, nursing a well-deserved hangover, I picked idly at a flake of skin on my leg. Then I realised it wasn’t skin at all, but dried semen. Wryly, I recalled...
Just Another Stain on the Sheet
"It's surprising what will spark off memories"
When did I last wash this sheet?It must be nearly a month. That’s awful. God, I’m such a slut. Just look at the dried-up stains on it. All that remains Of four weeks of fucks. I remember that big stain...
Tension In The Mellowing
"Though lovers reach their autumn, their tale will still be told."
There's a tension in the mellowing;A striving in the firelight;A beauty in the darkening air;A gentleness in the autumn fury.Aging love, steadfastly kept,Is still a thriving, broad-shouldered youth.Well-worn hearts are entwined in ivy,Bursting with berried, passionate joys.These ancient days of...
Night and Day
"Thoughts of an absent lover"
This is a first effort at publication. Please be gentle. It is twilight – that wonderful time between day and night That the French call l’heure bleue – the blue hour. As I look out over the water, the infinite...
Fairy Tales: Four Poems of Farewell
"The first of four: Adam saying Farewell to Eve"
From Fairy Tales: Four Poems of FarewellAdam and EveOur garden is overgrown.The grass is talland weeds choke out the sun.We stand here in the shadelooking for a paththrough all of this,seeing, how, in our innocenceand frightened of aloneness,we held each...