Archive for the ‘Love’ Category
Between them
A man walked with his female lover north on Broadway, passing Victoria’s Secret on 85th Street, its Amazon-sized window photos of women in lace garments daring him and coaxing her. He was on her right as they walked and had his arm around her neck. With that arm his lifted his hand and pointed to [...]
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breathe
Suspended between them like the moment before a wink, like a quiet after the final note, or a star captured only in the corner of the eye. Like a snowflake falling between their lips: which the breath from a word spoken aloud would simply melt.
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uptown express #3
The woman with the page haircut stood steps away from the couple twenty years her younger as they clung to the subway pole in the center of the car. She considered them. The younger woman faced her lover. She wore a spaghetti-strap lycra top, revealing a tattoo of a black-and-blue star between her shoulder blades. [...]
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At the end of a day
We have a few trees in the courtyard behind our apartment. Two silver maples and a Chinese elm. Though they are luscious during the summer, they also carry for me the association of seeing them next to the highway on the rare occasions I would leave Manhattan by car many years ago. There—it seemed always [...]
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Tags: Chinese-elm, towhee
Invite
Come. Let me take you Away into a city of fog and whispers. Whispers into your ear, As you feel the electric Tickle of my lips on your skin.
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