Submissions by Newvexations

As day breaks
our hands touch
when I reach for you
measuredly, like someone
attempting to gather in
a scared kitten.

Your hand glides into mine
and your fingers command
my fingers
and lock between them
like you hold me
with importance.
Captured by you
I want to envelope
your entire hand
as I hold a hot cup
gathering and giving warmth.
Hesitant fingers recoil
with timidity.

I accept your ways.
I want your love.
I fear change
for our love might
leap from our hands
like a frightened...

Before Easter I returned home to find
behind my rural red brick mailbox
knockout roses parading
their first blossoms of spring.  
I found candytuft, faded to green,
saving scattered sprinkles of white
for me to view one more time.  
Fallen pink petals of dogwood trees
fluttered through a whimsical ballet
to entertain me on
their ballroom floor of Kentucky bluegrass.

You changed while I snapped photographs
of starfish captured by the sand
when evening tide rolled out to sea.  
You changed, blossoms opened
as other...

Each night she pretends
a wholesome guy
will shuffle alongside
on the sidewalk and
gently bump her shoulder.

Wholesome guy’s are
good in the morning
like high-fiber granola,
and easy on the eyes
with rumpled curls
resting against
eyes void of blood lines.

A wholesome fellow
knows what he wants −
her.

Her wholesome guy’s
adorned with blue denim
and passion spilling from
his crotch.

Her wholesome lover
lights candles on her birthday;
burns his way into her heart.

As they...