Thirty-one thousand, seven hundred and two steps more or less we had the same count him striding in front of me, most of the time the cityscape beckoning me to […]
for love and poetry: second edition ‘Your heart’s a maze … your love’s a riddle’ The second edition of #forloveandpoetry not only revisits the first edition which was published in […]
What is, we often ask, real? Is it the slightest thought that moves and shakes the ground or the tangible matter that lays still and fills the empty space? I […]
Despite what threatens between the two of us land-grabbed territories and disputed seas false promises, debt traps, missing antibodies I would have kissed you back, again and again If only […]
Sunny eyes and gleaming teeth warm the still empty space in my room. Even in the middle of the night I hear the rumbling from his belly deep almost mimicking […]
But you couldn’t even read my mindeven if I were an open book, so to speak,a conduit for expletives and clichés if I were only, truly, as you imagined For […]
You cannot sing your breath is gushing with water your lungs are pumping gasps instead of gas When love is a cube perfected extremes that stretch straight to the core […]
Open the windows and let the scarce summer wind conjure figments and fragments distant memories. Remember how we were told to stay indoors from March until May only to let […]
Can I melt. right this moment? Like a sculpted candle. waxing and waning, wary of your flickering smile. wanting to caress every inch of you. wallowing in mixed and dazed madness. wafting in the […]
I am filled with your song, your intense serenade the happiness in your eyes grips me, seduces me, the sadness that you bring beckons me, calls my name, commands me, […]
Once more, I write on paper once more, I acquaint myself with an object so familiar with my eyes, nose, lips, fingertips and ears once more, I write on paper. […]
Spaces are shaped by sound, the ticking time allows me to see. Eyes shut, I find many ways to sleep but there’s no way to silence my heartbeat. Sounds shaped […]
The dawn breaks again, tears two worlds apart— day from night, light from dark, lip from lip, reality from reality, you from me. There’s thunder in your arms, lightning in […]