Dirty pictures
Teats, up-ended skirts, dogs in heat, yep there’s a lot of sex in this short poem.
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Crickets, nature’s Viagra
Touch Me by Stanley Kunitz Summer is late, my heart. Words plucked out of the air some forty years ago when I was wild with love and torn almost in two scatter like leaves this night of whistling wind and rain. It is my heart that’s late, it is my song that’s […]
MoreMaking Out, Advanced Class
Feasting by Elizabeth W. Garber I am so amazed to find myself kissing you with such abandon, filling myself with our kisses astounding hunger for edges of lips and tongue. Returning to feast again and again, our bellies never overfilling from this banquet. Returning in surprise, in remembering, in rediscovering, such play of […]
MoreCavafy at the wedding
Song of the Heart by Cavafy With you, I think, all that is pleasant smiles on me, in the mirror of your eyes there is reflected joy. Stay, my light, and still I have not told you even half of all that presses down upon my heart so amorous, that rushes to my […]
MoreFourth annual Valentine’s Day poem blitz
Every Valentine’s Day I brainstorm for places that romantically-inclined or romantically-averse folks might congregate as they prepare for the holiday or prepare to avoid it. In the past I’ve left love poems in a chocolate store, post office, senior citizen’s home, a food court, a lonely-looking motel, the floral department of a grocery store. Now in my […]
MoreIn search of strange things
Smart bloggers use their site stats to figure out how to attract more readers. I’m not smart that way (or I’m too lazy to figure out how to be smart that way), but I still love my site stats. It’s fun at the end of the day to see how many visitors I’ve had, how […]
MoreLove under the elms
Love Song by William Carlos Williams Sweep the house clean, hang fresh curtains in the windows put on a new dress and come with me! The elm is scattering its little loaves of sweet smells from a white sky! – Who shall hear of us in the time to come? Let him say there was […]
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