I want wine but I drink water. I want to hold your body so close and so hard that your breath is forced from your lungs and only by sucking it into mine will your life be spared. I want wine but I drink water. Continue reading Death by Desire
I don’t need to hear you say “I love you”, I want to know you do by the look in your eyes, the touch of your hand, the way you listen when I talk. I don’t need candy, flowers, diamonds or trips around the world. I only need you to be there during my darkest hours when I cover my head and wail like a lost child because life has left me bereft. I need you by my side when it counts: when the hurricane is coming, when loved ones die, when friends desert, when I fall into the biggest, … Continue reading February 14
We watched for the return of the birds. The air around the house was silent and devoid of flutterings, a vacuum of tweets and whistles. What straggling flowers were left went hummingbirdless while twigs and string were just twigs and string with no hope of sheltering featherless offspring. It was strangely quiet, as though they were all sucked into a void somewhere and became dinosaurs again in another dimension. Kind of like our love, they were a wondrous memory for a time until slowly finding their way back home. Continue reading Wingless
Nothing in common brought us together. I remember the first night we slipped away, heating up like strong coffee on the stove, simmering slowly, in wait for the sweetness of sugar. Continue reading Sanguine
Whenever I find myself wishing I lived alone, I’m going to remember this day. I’m going to remember the silence that is not peaceful, that is not only the absence of sound but the absence of you. I’m going to remember that you weren’t here when I turned to share a thought or here to ask why when the caller ID didn’t work. You weren’t here when I needed help with the old dog nor when it was time to eat. I ate alone and it didn’t seem worth it – without you. I did my normal chores and the … Continue reading Jolt
