Absalom’s Tresses

Your unmatched beauty drives chariots and men, a teeming throng. Yet you garrote your own throat with your barbed tongue. Your fine face betrayed                 when I told you, “You are the precious                                 last breath of a drowning man. You are rocks in my pockets.” You are my death. In your name, this…

revelation

And you said, You and I as a couple are as ironic as Mother Teresa with a photon gun. I said, “Oh, I know.  You are so handsome, so witty and you really have your shit together.” I guess it wasn’t funny. A two year old letter read and reread countless times lies on the…