I'll keep the winter with me, each night you added me to your heartwhen I kept wanting to know more, for you to tell me what you saw when staring for hours out of the dark windows of your bedroom while still in my arms. Maybe I already lost you by then,eyes transfixed on some secret oblivion sweeping through those late hours, tightly tied to places I could not reach. Maybe you just wanted me to join you there,let those so...

I wasn't what you thoughtI would be when unraveling, threads spilling and whippingviolently in the cold wind each one a contained frame in time. You may not be able to still them long enough to truly see into all of me, the stories you've written behind my eyes, prologues and chapters you believe I never held close enough to memorize. I've kept them entangled inside, scenes filling every chamber, epilogues that split me i...

There are moments engineered by things beyond us, there's no other shape I want to be near, no other form I want to know all of me. Earlier in the dark falling snow, it was almost like soaring through stars, it all makes a pattern I can almost decode, assemble to see secrets always moving just underneath every living surface. In tangling bones, in the muscles they cage, in every clavicle and crest, I may know what makes y...

I would never want to keep you from the eyes of everyone else,but you're just out of my reach, a reminder carved into me about the distance between skins. Someone else always sees what I first saw in you, never the infinite layers beneath, never the immutable heart I can feel beating so perfectly with my own.  It seems no one caresto see that side of me,  I'm all flesh and lies and want,while you are the soft petals to un...

Something in me doesn't want to let go after, these unnamed regions in me are like roots that need to coil around and stay inside you, our bodies sheltered in the aftershocks tremoring through our exhausted and satisfied forms. There is no fall after going over this edge, no blackness swallowing us whole,only the stillness of a bedroom, our warmth hovering in the air. The candles we lit blew out during our joining, flames...

You've always known how to bend mewith a note and break me with a song, and in between, my love, I know where I belong. Standing in the road to brace for a storm, when I think I can't be your ghost anymore, you pass through me and I absorb all the pain that wrapped around you before I couldn't help you from becoming all that I know. So leave a melody for me wherever you decide to go, through falling snow or a summer breez...

I want to still the blinking fragments, ones that time will want to break apart, like ashes and snow swirling through the faint cold sigh of every January wind. I could keep you so close to me, cling to seconds otherwise edited or stolen by memory's shuttering lens, none of the narrative would be lost or translated into unreliable histories. We'll be able to remember what soothes one another, what gives us flight when the...

Everything else dims as you come to me, our skin flushed with wine and need, our fevers ready to meet tonightwhile the stars burn as we often do. Patiently illuminating space while waiting to swell and burst, to become shimmers and sparks charging every particle of the air.  I collapse with you, contained as you disrobe, an aching anticipation throbbing more with every bare curve you reveal. Teasing my eyes before you des...

Each kiss is an invisible mark upon lips and skin,the living territory I've claimed as mine,tracts more intricate and mysterious than any I have ever explored.Sometimes you wonder why I grow so quiet,but do not mistake silence for indifference,the quiet that is as fragile and sudden as the final blink between seasons,there's just something I cannot shake at times,the aches of some nameless phantom limb.Just know the marks...

The windows to you remain so close to me as you sleep in the cradle of my arms, shut so tight in the dark.I wonder what different planets you've molded without me.If I'm there by your side or a different version of us exists in those private realms. If the imperfections we've carried into this home have been chiseled and sanded away, smoothed over to be the ideal joining we once saw fluttering in one another's eyes. That...

I've always wanted to know how to reach you,to forget each divide within us that is a dark oceanpopulated with dangerous new species,depths we may not know how to chart alone.I don't want to stay on the surface anymore,where rippling reflections are torn by tidescolliding and forgetting how to merge,where waves pull us apart before a sound can leave our lips.I've been to blame all this time,this inarticulate nature of min...

Time moves and unfolds behind your eyes, I see myself when those fragile colored orbsbegin to blossom and constrict before you pull away from me. If I am to be nothing more than a bright flash across your sky, hold on to that split second where I am pure energy. Where I make the above an intricate patchwork of electric veins singeing the oxygen, strobing across the land and lighting up all the cold and dark roomsyou thoug...

You should remember all the times love consumed you,sang through every drop of blood,hummed and roared through your boneslike an unstoppable engine and each touchshared was a new track to build for navigating beautiful unknown continents.Remember when love was made to silence your most natural primal aching,bodies guided through the night's dark shroudsto react from the ignitions that lovers spark,the flames we reach for...

I keep the ink stains on my fingers, temporarily tattooed grooved loops examined when my pen no longer scrawls along the pages. I've written for hours on end, seeing if I've missed syllables, if the passages capture your surface or the infinite beauties breathing beneath. I've come to think of them as artifacts, untouched treasures just waitingto be unearthed by patient hands,studied with knowing fingertips. But the words...

When we're this close in bed, arms and legs as loving tangled knots, I wish you could breathe in all I am, a singular exhale of air to embrace with the ferocity of curious lungs. Then you would know everything that forms me, memory upon memory before you became the axis and gravity gently holding my world, you would know where to place every kisson the spaces scarred inside and out. You would know that when I hide, it's b...