Long Poems About Polyamory

What is it to be polyamorous? To have multiple fires burning. When we meet a new person and start to link our eyes, minds and time. Eventually we align from interests and chatter bridging to investment and what matters. What is it to share so much of ourselves? We grow as individuals from every friend we meet, and when that friendship blossoms into something special we grow by miles of experience. The chambers of emotional maturity arise from letting go of insecurity. When nothing is guaranteed the most we can be is honored to be considered special enough to be alone with someone, to be truly...

there are good girls & there are bad girls, & usually
it’s hard to tell the difference. they can switch sides
quick & easy to get what they want.

so Karrie is a good girl. she took me in when I was
broke & wasted, ragged as a stray dog. she makes
a good roast beef sandwich & the beer’s always
cold. but she wants more than kitchen duty, washing
socks & mopping up the bathroom floor.

she gets that hungry look in her eyes, the kind that
can burn a man down to his ashes, like a scarecrow
in a bonfire;...