I spent the night at Jo’s house without Brandy. “Hey, what’s bothering you? You’re acting weird,” Jo said as we sat on her bed. “My sister is an asshole,” I said. “Well, yeah. What did she do this time?” I took a minute to explain what happened earlier. “...
I’ve resisted so many moments When contacting you would have made sense. When venting to youMight have fixed my brain. I’ve sat back and thoughtAbout all the callsAnd the nights that brought us the sunriseWhere there were few moments of silence between u...
She opens her soul at sunriseHer taste buds already titillated by a drop of morning dewNourishing herself from the bounty of god’s earth Supplemented by love from nurturing caregivers She matures quickly Her body growing longer, leaner and more beautifu...
A poet wrote, “parting is such sweet sorrow,”A cloying sentiment I would dispute,The fading of love spawns such bitter fruit,Better death than to awake the morrow.Though the fruit of love’s dawning seems so sweet,The joy of its consumption is but briefAnd...
I shuffled my body aligning my face with the oval opening in the massage table. Inhaling the scent of the always freshly cleaned linens, I parted my legs slightly. The cool air from the fan caused goosebumps and I wondered to myself just how transparent o...
Mulberry trees (Morus spp.) are a species that are gender fluid—they may first be male, then female, then change back again. You can find individual mulberry trees that are dioecious—with only male flowers or only female flowers. But right next to such a...
My affair with Judy lasted almost a full five years. We were never caught and no one ever suspected anything about us. The only two people that knew were my wife, who Judy confessed to last summer, and Judy's friend Jennifer, who Judy told a long time ago...
you are a shard of glass, cut betweenthe palms of my hands.cutting deep, and surginginto my veins.the bitter smell of blood... haunting my taste forreality. you are a scar, white,sensitive to the touch.pure as the sleeping child who stilldreams there are...
When a relationship ends The healing can finally beginYou were once lovers and best friendsYou got underneath each other's skinThe love was once thereNow it's all goneYou lose faith and don't careThere's nothing left to hold onNo tears as this is bestA fi...
You must put that photograph away! What you had was once lovely, but Tomorrow is always another day. These feelings you have for her are ugly. Time heals wounds they say, Memories are what one has had. These feelings on your heart do weigh, You both took...
