"Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid pressure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor."

"I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give."

"…nobody in the world even ever dares to write the true story of love, it’s awful, we’re stuck with a 50% incomplete literature and drama - Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow - the secret underground truth of mad desire…"

electricity through my veins
humming and buzzing
i should be asleep after you
destroyed the fire inside me
but it still burns restlessness
wide awake wanting more
clawing at my own tender flesh to
release the buzzing inside

where are you to give me
your skin for mine
the spark shared the buzzing
turned down so i can
finally rest inside the safety of
you

this absence is strange
there was a distance of sorts before
but not like this, not thousands of miles between

but the connection now
is suddenly clear to me
and i am starting to understand what will happen when i return

i will see you for who you are
and you will see me in the same light
both with eyes open