renderings of love on a tuesday:

“the overall effect, the result of looking and looking into its brimming surface as long as I could look, is love, by which I mean a sense of tenderness toward experience, of being held within an intimacy with the things of the world”-mark doty

“love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within”-james baldwin

“my notion of love…is very closely related to the blues. there’s always somebody leaving somebody, and there’s never any vengeance, any bitterness…”-toni morrison


service without limits,
unforeseen respect

reaching in to seize my heart from my chest
handing it over to my daughter, sophia
absorbed through soft, gentle palms ‘til her womb plays the role of God,
and molds a new heart to this earth, births a new love

the picture of tangled, honeyed thighs,
skin crinkled and peppered with spots made of stories
soft cackles singing in an otherwise quiet room
they never will grow mold.