Jimita

"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..."

"warning: depiction of a rape, contains context-appropriate vulgarity I woke with a start and saw you, backlit by the street light, your body climbing over my first floor patio rail 5 AM. Pacific Ti..."

"I saw you today at the marble wall the flower cup empty and I can only wonder how you came to be in this place I remember you hunting, mud on your boots the bow slung over your shoulder as y..."

"Like a cloudy day I wear our sin, gray skies shadow the heath. Yours, however, lies within like Dimmesdale, rotted beneath As one, our hearts briefly soared an ethereal spirit's flight. Consigned to ..."

"With apologies to both Robert Browning and Chris Ingham... All night long we had not stirred no need, we sat content warmed by passions’ whispered word after life has spent the darling wish t..."

"A thing is defined by what it is not: space and form light and dark love and hate. Your nebulous gray tweed existence, herringbone rigid, sought a splash of color in abrupt declarations of..."

"And we drove flat out, pedal to the metal as fast as the solar wind. The view soared for miles of straightaway with not another car in sight And we drove breeze roaring though the open windows no A/C..."

"She doesn't talk about him, but you can see he's there in her thoughts, the dark shadow behind her eyes that wasn't there before. It's not as though you really knew him friends said, trying to help b..."