Month: January 2013

  • Love letter # 185

    I have tried not to see your beauty. Not to have it blazing in my eye. Not to see your lovely mouth, nor to smell your honey skin. Not to think of how your hand would feel, nor fix upon your hips. Not to watch you dance like that. Not to share your drink. Not…

  • Love letter # 86

    I climbed the misty hill to feel your rain about my shoulders. You settled gently on my skin. I walked along the forest floor to hear the sound of your life around me. It filled me up with song. I was tempted by the fruit you grew. When I bit your sugars flowed. I swam…

  • Love letter # 116

    We live in terrified times, so I find this hard to say. When I noticed you – wet and salty on the beach – water tracing lines over your incredible form, glistening on the synthetic sheen of your bathers…I was too afraid to look. I felt that if my gaze should linger not only would…

  • Love letter # 183

    I walked in the splendid shadows just to be with you. I learned the songs of the seraphim just to hear you sing. And I swam in the silken sea so as to have your arms about me. When I feel that you are not with me, I look again, and realise that you are…