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You surprise me with a gift Presented on your knees Your touch, reaching, means supplication You offer to take something from me as your gift..

Yearwide memory, This friendship has atrophied From lack of use. You held the chord on the piano, The music sustained, Rich and beautiful. You m..

Upon waking, His head is an empty vessel To be speedily fed awareness and thought Before he must leave for work. A coffee will facilitate this. T..

Individuals divide Only under enormous pressure Geological and seismic insults They divide into fractions Incomplete sentences, Lost nouns, lost ..

Step past the curtains Into the stream of water. Feels immediately the ecstacies of warmth on your back, Like hands, like sunlight. Anoint yoursel..

The headlights of Derek’s Toyota Tercel violate the darkness outside, illuminating a curving road and harvested cornfields. The trees that..

You cause me pain Through your pain. You react, bleed. I am not without the stain of that blood. I can be defensive, Collect it in a pail And th..

Boys, I hold you in my arms And my father holds me And my grandfather holds him... Kick your legs, Twist and squirm, I'm not letting you go. Th..

I'm not lying, darling, I'm omitting the truth. Because, sweetheart There are things you don't need to know- Not because they are unimportant, Bu..

I look at you and am ignited, Aroused. Thoughts fall on a delicious memory, The lingering sense of you. My mind returns to that moment and e..