The coffee cup with your lipstick mark Seductive tempting I want to bring it to my mouth To taste you Cedar and cinnamon I hear you talk And wonder if I can protect you from the world But mostly from...

I take back everything I told you I don’t love you, I never did I don’t feel safe with you, I don’t feel vulnerable yet completely free I don’t want your arms to envelope me in unstinting care, the smell...

What if Pasta cooked faster Traffic lights turned go as you got there Your home cleaned itself Your body and your life - it fit in the right place, it was touched by the right people The disease would just...

Don’t leave after what we shared When the night melted and you held my heart inside yours Why the distance now Between each silent space we created like architects designing a lambent love How I slowly unfurled under your gentleness...

  You goddess you! Anger and freedom Fire licking wind bursting like pomegranate seeds pop pop Shoot them down on the path to your soul And when you reach the space where lava meets earth transforms it into crackling will...

Does it matter how I know you To love you Does it make a difference to Love To flow only down a certain path Blood Family Friends Intimacy Religion Nation-State Does the colour of my skin Risk our love Does...