FREE LOVE LETTERS

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

Love letter # 923

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…

So subtle sometimes. Under the radar. A blink, and there you are. Beside me, inside me. So much so that…

Ask once and the answer is yes. Ask a hundred times and it will be no. My love will not…

Shall we apply the old standards…or would you like to break with convention? We could, of course, repeat old patterns.…