How do you explain love?

Love sounds like the pitter-patter of raindrops against your window at night.Ice-cream trucks when you were seven.The low purr of a cat.It sounds like the first song that pops into your mind upon reading this. The first time you heard a baby laugh out loud.A comfortable silence. Love tastes like the glass of fridge-cold water […]

The skies are always red

I ask my niece what she thinks of loveAll of eight, she is the smartest person I know.She can count to thirty without breaking a sweat,And catch butterflies and pet stray cats that nuzzle their face into her palms,And when her mother asks if she has done her homeworkShe always says yes and winks at […]

A muse of another kind

She hated the beach. She never quite said the wordsBut you could see it in her eyes every time we went. As the waves howled and the crows caroled,The humid air dragging its fingers lazily across exposed skin,She would turn her back to the sea, the world and everything in between. How do you ask […]

Remember me

The title “Remember me” is a conscious homage to one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard – “The Trapeze swinger“, by Iron and Wine. Here’s the same by Gregory Alan Isokov, because why not? I ask of you nothing you cannot give,And even those I want not. Sitting under the starless July […]