This poem only available on Lush Stories. If you are reading it elsewhere, it has been stolen. He lay in the rainy moonlight on All Hallows EveAwaiting his lover’s kiss.Shafts of watery pearly blue glowed upon his skinAs the scudding clouds laid shadowsUpon the face of the moon. And he waited for her. Midnight loomed,The…
A river is between us– too deep and dark and swift to swim and not be swept away. We do not know the river’s source, but there it is– sometimes calm, sometimes raging from a storm. We see each other on our shores, busy in our lives. We wave and smile but cannot hear across…
What was I thinking when I placed that ad, “man seeking woman.” Was I going mad? I never did a thing like that before, but suddenly I opened up the door I’d closed and hung myself out on the line, my heart flapping in the wind like a sign someone might see and wonder who’s…
For all these years— has it been a hundred yet, you’ve slept in a tower high above the world. No one could crawl through these thorns, these vines, these obstacles to wake you. I’ve come before– not even knowing you– and stood here by this wall, looking up, straining for some way to penetrate these…