FREE LOVE LETTERS

In the bright eye of early afternoon I think of lightness. Later, in the smoky shade of evening, I contemplate…

Love letter # 236

It’s true, things could have gone differently. We both made poor choices, acted out of pain. In the end it…

Even in our shared anonymity, we are all someone Words & images © Paul Ransom Old love letters…so long buried…

Yesterday, when we knew everything, nothing could stop us. Ours was the miracle unfolding. Today, we persist in ordinary orbit.…

It is the people who claim to know you that have the least idea. Hypocrite that I am, I tell…

My final words will be your name. I shall whisper the syllables slowly. They will remind me of soft breeze.…

You fell so beautifully, wrapping yourself around me…and I flew to you, nearly breathless, at once starving and sated. Everything…

Do you remember? One day, I love you. The next, I can’t do this. Abrupt. The slap of sudden freeze.…

How revealing – this sentiment. Such improbable sweetness. As though revived, years stripped away. All manner of purple poetics pouring…

How much easier it would be, how neat and orderly, if I knew of a way not to care. You…