I love your calm smile that refreshes my heart like a delicate breeze.
I love your indescribable cheeks, blushing like a field of singing flowers.
I love your beautiful soul that creates dazzling days, months, and seasons.
I love everything about you. And I love thinking of you and dreaming with you.
I love everything that reminds me of you, and I love your presence. When you come, everything disappears except your breathtaking beauty.

A girl child
when born
to a family

is

either
seen as

a

burden to be
disposed of

or

too precious a treasure
kept hidden for protection

but

not once considered
as a human being.

Your eyelids flutter,
Your hand slips into mine,
Warm touch on your thigh
Your eyes half-shut-
Bittersweet sips of wine,

We don´t dance around the truth-
We share fantasy with grace
I´m pretending-
A narrative you´re inventing,
I rehearse my lines aloud,
Staring at the shared sky,
As we both lie.

showing on empty
red light on

not a gas station
in sight

joined up letters
a family of oddities
the naming of children
by the parents of poetry