He lies beside herin the tender dark,counting the rhythm of her breathingas if it were something fragile. The distance between themis barely inches…a continent. Slowly, carefully,he lets his hand descend. It rests first on her knee,through the thin cotton of her nightgown.He waits there,heart hammering,as if even that small claimmight wake the years between them. […]

It’s Christmas Eve, and we’re at the house she grew up in, after driving hours from campus where we met. She was a bright eyed freshman, and I a clumsy teaching assistant. She knew I’d be alone for the holiday, and I could hardly believe when she invited me home with her.  “No one should […]

You opened the door,a spill of light illuminating you from behind—the soft blue of your pajamascatching the glow, tracing every quiet detail of you. A chill had whispered through the air,and I saw the way your body listened—a quiet shiver,a tightening,a tender firmness risingagainst the gentle pull of cloth. Every curve,every contour of your breasts […]

She steps from the showera vision of warmth and water and light. Steam still clinging to her skin,drops tracing paths down her shoulders,the air itself seems to hush for her. That towel, drawn so tight to guard her beauty.Shapes that his hands still rememberthe soft curve of her lovely breasts,the gentle hollow where shadows meet.Brushing […]

I recall my first touchof the most intimate youthe back seat of the vana blanket to conceal the view I sneaked my young handsbeneath the waist of your clothesand reached down with my fingersdestination unknown you were so youngI didn’t know what I’d discoveruntil my fingers lightly brushedthe softness of your nubile feather your nervous […]