The One
I saw you from across the roomExuding masculine energyFrom your granite jaw and gunmetal eyes.Every woman’s eyes were on youAs you strode through the room,Looking for the one you’d make happy tonight. Your steely eyes captured each gaze, one at a time,One bee seeking one specific flower.Onlytheone.You knew what you wantedand would not settle. My […]
Kindle
I strike a match—a flicker.Possibility crackles in the air;a sparkdances between usbefore the flame catches. Eyes meet.Heat rises—a silent pulse,a force older than the sunpulls us in. My breath catches.Inches feel like milesjust beforethe touch of fingertipsor the brush of lips,the space betweenheavy with the scentof desire— a breath held,on the edgeof touch.
A Literary Flirtation
He sits sprawled,in his usual overstuffed chair.Pretending to read,but watching her instead. She types him in quiet stanzas,eyes lowered.She peers through her lashesmemorizing every detail Every glance he stealsis a line borrowedfrom the poem in her heartand the margins of her longing. He reads herin sidelong silences,lips twitching at the cornersdecoding ellipses where words should […]