To think of gratitude and to think of thank you cards ( Read more... )

When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic ( Read more... )

From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your face, but today I have seen it ( Read more... )

 You can tell by how he lists 
                                            to let her 
kiss him, that the getting, as he gets it,
is good. 
              It’s good in the sweetly salty, 
deeply thirsty way that a sea-fogged
rain is good after a summer-long bout
of inland drought. 
                              And you know it
when you see it, don’t you? How ( Read more... )

I avoid speaking your name in conversation ( Read more... )

If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say,
Like this.

When someone mentions the gracefulness
of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
and dance and say,
Like this?If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is ( Read more... )

As though touching her ( Read more... )

Having a core is to the apple ( Read more... )

This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calmed--see here it is--
I hold it towards you.

"This Living ( Read more... )