day break   day broke  on your face   i flicked moon crumbs  off your eyebrows   & watched your pupils  dew honey & malt

I used to sniff your scent, redolent of work, play, earth, sawdust, sunshine. I used to lick the spice of your sweat, an animal desire

Say we never went to the Dairy Queen, licked an ice cream cone on the concrete bench outside on a hot summer afternoon. Say you

Sensuality, Nose curves, to Cupid’s bow, to vulnerable expanses of skin over weaknesses. Pressing kisses to his neck, Floating in aquarium coral arrangements, euphoric,  

A long slim poem full of hyperbole & alliteration drifted into the wrong e-mail box. There she met an erudite rich text format file. They

Here, take my heart      allow it to defeat any failure to become a flower; enable it to render you complete with all your

   In another season, another world— that lost moment, we ran into nights    of shudder and crucible, autumn    and oceans—our love barely risen

There’s a fault in the heavens But somewhere here We unravel each other with soft hands Rouge ribbons tangled up Your hands gripping every part

As just one pulled stitch in a sweater mars its facade, so the two of us snagged on your chronic fatigue but eventually learned to

Cruel are those tears that slip, silently down without a sound, The most sorrowful noiseless scream, no solace to be found. Welling up from a

The Other Side of Leaving A resident of breath, I stop existing from this moment to the next. Nothing tethers me here anymore, not heartstrings,

during the flight to atlanta I almost placed my hand upon your knee just like old times and it hurt not to do so this

I hold your waist as you transfer from wheelchair to toilet seat, pull down your wet pullup and pajama bottom, replace them with a dry

She fell into the sun. She left her body and soared, transcending the boundaries of space and time, of reality and existence, of everything and

(for Katherine, 16th anniversary)   You grow your hair longer these days, Thick black beautiful hair. It hangs loosely cropped to your shoulders, A black