your garden groomed, made me blushit blossom for you aloneon the air you pollinate my vulerabilityyour lavendar linger over my lipskiss the sky I am the dappled sunlight of dayaroused by your shadowa God, I have never beheld youshimmering...

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,...

delicate understanding, I have made you feel forgottendreaded truth, I've been adrift and all the world is a blurI'm losing myself forgetting what I once knewyour face haunts my dreamsI've let you down and I can't change thatmy heart...