Throuple

 Prince: Will you have me lady?
Beatrice: No, my lord, unless I might have another for working days. 
Your Grace is too costly to wear every day.

(Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing II.i.319-323)

And they lived happily ever after- 

But is "they" always two?

Can three live as well as two

Or does jealousy seep through

A crack created when she smiles

In a different way

Than she smiles at you?

Or you share a kind of connection

That has his eyes blaze

With uncertainty.

Equal Night

 Equal Night

No lamb or lions for this
The celebration of equal delights
Autumn tiptoes in
On black cat's rumbling purrs
Dividing day and night

With a scratch and a scream.

The season of comfort: 
Flannel sheets and pumpkin pies
Brings us closer to thoughts
Of our own final harvests
Pulling the veil back.

Preceded by pleasure,
Sinking down to sweet earth
Sipping the stars by moonlight,
We become drunk on promises.

Flannel

Slide so sweetly between

the soft shell of sheets.

Another night of dreams awaits.

This favorite fabric is fine.

A feeling of freedom found,

no longer bound

by the restraint of reality.

Carried back on waves of wistfulness

Folded in flannel

Pressed around me

the protection of pure love.

Flannel was my fortune -

And my downfall.

Wrapped in a world, 

dreaming of blissful delights.

Now it reminds of

winter afternoons

wrapped in a safe world.

sheltered by you.

This is just to say

This is just to say

that I have lit

the oak moss and amber candle

which you seem to hate.

It is not that

I want to keep you out of

my room.

It's just that I like the smell.

Time to myself

Is a bonus.

Imaginings

 I've been spending some time lately imagining a world of what ifs.

For instance-

What if he met my husband?

What if I ran in to him locally?

What if he ran in to my sister?

What if I answer that email?

(yes, I saw it)

All of these scenarios play

Prancing through my head

Dancing through my thoughts.

Making me think about

something that will (probably) never happen.

But damn, they make great inspiration.

Thanks!