Porphyria's Reply

"Our dance stilted,        we stumble over unseen obstacles        gilt ghosts in the gallery reminding us        of all the reasons why        you and I cannot be        I saw her with you..."

"Of course you remembered the crowd, the laughter at my expense, my hot shamed tears unable to hide the inevitability of our confederation Chivalry still exists you showed me that day, as you s..."

"Ah, you remembered the beach, the shifting sand, and shapes piling up in dunes of time. How long ago it was, and how many women I imagine there have been for you since. Was it love -- or mere..."

"Your words drew me inside the page Each one plucking a taut string that reverberated to my very core I am dumbstruck at their power, as you beckon to me across the oceans, pulling me inescapabl..."

"My love for you is a house of cards built of dreams and longing possibilities never realized, certitude never proven. In that house I waited for you burning with unvoiced desire for your body..."

"Lightning crashes in the Albuquerque sky each drop a silver arrow piercing the dust and dissolving the hills within seconds the current rages canons boom louder and nearer and shock waves sl..."