If you happen to find 

the truth, please leave 

everyone else alone.




A happy place
rolling water
ice cream
party lights
Let's go to the
car wash





Here
in comfort
physical, sensual joy
yet desiring to be elsewhere
I resort to deconstructing 
ideals. My prized ideals
Strip of fabric slips
off my leg
Bringing me 
here
I smile at you, life



If I were to write a poem
after I fell in love 
in the first decade of my life
it would plead to hold me
and attent to me fully
To gift a poem today
I write that I love me
so fully that I'd like to 
share that feeling
with you