Dear Lover—a poetry collection about hope and heartbreak, about love in its short, long, and temporary forms, about how love can be cloaked in abuse, how love can build us or break us, the hard and soft of it, the good, the bad, and the completely atrocious.
The collection is a poetic story of different relationships which are organized into the stages of a relationship; that initial attraction, the circling dance around each other, the honey-moon stage, the souring, ...
Dear Lover,
If you are empty
I am open
a lock is nothing without a key to close it,
a saucer needs tea
like sugar needs a spoon
a model does not both
pose and paint
think of
dissolving sugar, sweetened teas
Matcha whisks and sheltering saucers
ceramic teapots and crochet coasters
a heat that creeps from tea to saucer
a warmth spread by a sweetening spoon
what is a journey
without someone who wanders
if sometimes a pair
is made of two