FREE LOVE LETTERS

We are never so alone as when we impose loneliness on ourselves. As we have done with our various refusals.…

Love letter # 365

Subtly. Nearly undetected. You touched me thus. Shiver on the surface of skin. Perfume in the air. The texture of…

In the ragged shadow, a vacuum. An implosion. You – torn from me. Every day heavy. Numb, screaming, dissolving at…

So ordinary. Buying a ticket at the movies. Then, a touch, a soft greeting. I turn, and there, after thirteen…

Zooming out from the grit of specifics, from the aggravated dramas of relationship, all contention dissolves. All claims, all theories,…

How to give up on the romantic ideal without becoming bitter NB: This piece first appeared on our sister blog,…

A thousand years ago, or so it seems, I held you ever so briefly, and you, blooming, melted with me.…

It was all very sudden. I guess it had to be. Not so long ago I was someone else, now…

It happened again today. Heart breaking in a public place. A young Mandarin speaking mother sitting less than a metre…

Since you. Most days. I am the near neighbour of melancholy muses. I hear them clearly. Voices in the dwelling…