Completion
We were talking at cross purposes. We were enjoying domestic reverie together. How did it blossom into completion?
Navigating complex emotions of jealousy, ambition, insecurity, joy, fear, peace, anger, happiness, betrayal, contentment, disappointment, love.
We were talking at cross purposes. We were enjoying domestic reverie together. How did it blossom into completion?
I actually wrote this post five months ago. I feel more confident about bringing this out so here it is for your reading pleasure!
I’m in a relationship.
A famous couplet by W.H. Auden goes, “If equal affections cannot be, let the more loving be me.”
“Why do we trade in the attention of a hundred men for the indifference of one?”
A poem about the space in relationships.
You reached out your heart to me. What I found, tied me to you. What we are, is a kite.
My heart is a sieve. Shot with tiny holes.
Some conversations are traps, some are escapes.
A case of Emderatology: Close to midnight on Saturday, the coffee server on duty reported two dead people in the shop.
Someone recently asked me if I would do a tarot reading for them. I found a polite way to decline and recommended a friend who does this and related things for a living. Then they asked if this person was any good, whether it would work. And I had trouble…