It’s that time in the game when the server begins to get nervous, when the returner starts gaining confidence, that moment after the ball hits the net and the head judge calls out, “Love-30.” Palms are sweaty because both players know they can’t afford to make any mistakes. They know that momentum swings on a … Continue reading Love-30
Dear Journal, Before I met her my longest previous relationship was three years, and during two and a half years of that one it was like a nuclear warhead. I guess I should have quit while I was (slightly) ahead, but that’s altogether a different story for a different time. The point being that I … Continue reading Dear Journal: About a Girl
I want a Friday love So slow and easy Honey smooth Such sweet emotion Poured out Spilling over This Friday love Like a postcard Neatly tucked away Waiting for tomorrow Dreaming in color Just for a moment A circumstantial pause Right after midnight In this afterglow This sweet release An unfettered joy Bathed in light … Continue reading A Friday Love
Now, I’ve never been what you would call a physical person, even though I’ve always taken up a fair bit of real estate. When I was a kid I was a little butterball, heavy on the butter and rounder on the ball. It was a fact of life that I couldn’t be in a room … Continue reading I Am Not Just My Body
“If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.” ~Counting Crows This love is a ghost Haunting in its simplicity Silent and brooding A nightless dream Fading into nothing In the bright sunshine Making pretty pictures That fade in time Understated fragility A loss of innocence Drowned in memories These haunting moods This … Continue reading Films About Ghosts
Love is concrete Poured smooth Laid out flat Hardened by time It slides beneath Singed in fire Yet unscathed Naked and afraid It crawls forward To be comforted Safely ensconced In angels’ wings Transparently thin Yet strong as iron Clutched by hands Scarred by time And facsimile By a near-love A straight shot That went … Continue reading Perfect Love
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