God's POV

     "You don't believe Me."
     "Of course I..."
     I could see the way the words "do" and "don't" teeter-tottered on her lips. Indeed, despite the thirty-five years I'd given her, she was still very much a child. What she had yet to realize was that she was My child.

To a Beloved, with time running out

You lie there, casting back your sideways smile and doing what you do best; I can't help but laugh.
 

jdv

"i don't believe in love at first sight, and yet, i can remember exactly where i was the first moment i met all of the women i have loved in my life. i can remember every detail."
--brilliant, anonymous man

Three Lovers

   The two lovers sat among the gardenias.
   Along came the third.

Deeply Personal, the end.

finally, everything died. if i'd known then where things would stand almost twelve years later, perhaps i would have found some modicum of comfort. but then again, i would likely be an entirely different person, and i'm too proud of who i am now to want to go in for that bargain.

Deeply Personal, part two

and X months later, things fell apart before my eyes. the pen was my only guide in the ensuing confusion.

Deeply Personal

this is the first of what became an unintentional series of three poems that i wrote in college. as i sat back and read these this morning, i could still feel the uncomfortable shedding of childhood mingle with the grating assumption of adulthood in the series.

Requiem for the Phantom

i play the piano.

The Elements (August 2006)

the rain falls with a confidence

Remembering the Lights Above the Dinner Table (randomness from July 2009)

            I don’t know. Maybe five or ten years from now, wherever I am, I’ll remember sitting here, playing with the bobby pin that had been lying on my dinner table. 

Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura

i am an ass.

The Bond

    Question: what keeps us from revealing our deepest selves to the people we love the most?

The Mole

   "There."

   "What?"

   "The leak."

The Fool

   "The fool... If he'd left when he could have-"

a giant leap forward

so i can't believe i'm doing this. reasons why, after the jump.