I recently went on a date with a (grown) man who offered me lurid details about his colonoscopy. While having a roast beef dinner. Yes ladies and gentlemen, that is what you sometimes must endure when you start looking for...

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...

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...

I’d like you to grow a beard so that when you whisper in my ear the bristles chafe against my cheek I’d like you to stutter an interrupted thought from the sudden wink I give mid sentence in conversation with...