In my depths of despair I found myself clinging Holding onto what remained Of you, and of us Onto the hands of my daughter It pained me to see you leave her To walk away, and leave us As if we were nothing Cast aside so easily Until I decided, one day No moreI am worthy I am enough I am more I looked outside the walls of my own home Unsure what it was I was searching for My heart longing to be ...

two bodies align and spiral delicately into one another’s embracenot one ounce of her power diminished, not one trace of his acquiesced no need for armor here, no need for anxious monitoringthey wander into the expanse of their communal mind, where they might co-create a tenacious image of bodily union  lusting for that liminal fragment between space and time where appetite distracts from agony...