FREE LOVE LETTERS

I write this to have it said. To give it the shape of language. Tomorrow, I may think it mere…

Love letter # 599

It was just one kiss. Polite, not passionate. Yet your lips lingered a little longer – or did they? Now…

Now, with all these years between, it finally becomes clear why I was drawn to you and why my actions…

Already, it has begun. The slow uncoupling. The incremental shifting of orbit. The quiet cellaring of doubts – earmarked as…

Nothing is permanent; not even the arc of your love. I realise that the gap between elation and despair is…

What I really wanted to say to you on your birthday was that your advent showed me that I could…

How easy it would be for us not to bother. We could be that couple. We could lapse into blaming…

Hello there. In case you’re wondering, we already know one another by sight. We go the same beach in the…

The look in your eyes tells me everything I need to know. Your lips communicate, with soft pressure, the core…

So the fantasy is no longer viable. The ideal ‘us’ revealed as a construction; mostly of lust and other longings.…