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thanksanonymous Ā· 3 years ago
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Sphinx
The ephemeral hour between night and dawn brings a cold autumn rainĀ  to my window
I stir, draw breath from the hollowĀ  at your neck, humming half-dream confections wordless little sounds
Indifferent to the rain,Ā  to the hour, you gather the swell of my hips in your hands decorate my inner thighsĀ  with murmurs, lip-prints,Ā  and blush
The moon plays its silver gaze across our twinkling citrus skins your tongue stokes my aching center, and need threads me through like a vine
I donā€™t noticeĀ  as dawn erodes the black of night ā€”Ā  hoists cerulean and jade above the horizon line blots awayĀ  the pinprick stars, the playful shimmer of Venus
Iā€™m too busy looking at you, Sphinx holding court in this bygone sheet You,Ā  still as an ancient oak You,Ā  maddening even in sleep.
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thanksanonymous Ā· 6 years ago
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Tylerā€™s Trophies
My spine curves into the mattress as my bowed legs creep higher on your sweat-glazed back like eager, scheming spiders. I work to keep my face pleasantly distressed in the hope that I portray the sweet agony of woman in pleasure instead of the frustrated agony of a woman in need. I come to the same conclusion as I did last time, and the time before: despite my acrobatics, with a penis this small, thereā€™s no chance of my g-spot getting grazed, let alone plummeted, the way I want.Ā 
Itā€™s not your fault, of course. My gaze wanders the room, landingĀ on a thin strip of royal blue suede curling like ivy around the corner of your bookshelf. Just then, you cumā ā€”not with a bang, but with a whimper, as they sayā ā€”and drop deadweight upon my small frame. Disappointingly, I am entirely unharmed.Ā 
Your post-coital pants land heavy in my ear as I run my fingers through your orange hair, feeling much like a mother chimp. When the requisite two minutes have passed, I excuse myself to the bathroom where I take my time on the toilet and wash your hair gel residue from my fingers.
You are still face-down on the sheets when I return. Curiously, I peer over the edge of your bookshelf and find that the conspicuous suede is the strap of a three-inch, royal blue heel. The pair is lined neatly against the wall, the only item in your studio apartment that isnā€™t monochrome.
ā€œWhat are these?ā€ I ask, raising an eyebrow as I lift both heels in one curved finger.
You raise yourself to sit with your back against the headboard.
ā€œOh, those.ā€ You shrug in forced nonchalance,Ā  but the hint of a smile escape your lips.Ā 
ā€œThey belonged to a woman I was seeing,ā€ you explain. ā€œShe left them here a few months ago and never came back to get them.ā€
I rotate the heels in my finger, captivated by their ostentatiousness. They could just as easily be red carpet high fashion or final sale on the clearance rack.Ā 
ā€œYouā€™ve kept these shoes for months?ā€Ā 
You shrug again, smiling.
ā€œI like them,ā€ you say.Ā 
You are daring me to ask you questions, and I donā€™t take the bait. I shrug and put the heels back in their rightful place, toe-to-toe against the wall. The entire spectacle bores me.Ā  I donā€™t ask why you keep these shoes from an ex-lover in plain sight on your apartment floor. I already know the answer.Ā In their presence, you become the type of man who dates the type of woman who wears this type of shoes: the type of man youā€™ve always desperately wanted to be, but have never been.
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thanksanonymous Ā· 6 years ago
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harvest
i am able to imagine that someone might see the very best in me and dance with that smiling woman beneath the harvest moon
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thanksanonymous Ā· 7 years ago
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touch(love)
i. collarbone if i starve, will you love me better? iā€™m so hungry all of the time. no peanut butter, no milk, no pasta i tiptoe on the scale like a ballerina and trace my collarbone in the mirror iā€™m an archaeologist digging for love, but i only find bone.
ii. lips iā€™m so lonely. i get tired of performing. i just want to escape for a while. alcohol loosens my limbs and limbers my lips gives me permission to scavenge for scraps of touch(love) beneath the naked moon to eat greedily from the hands that feed me. iā€™m so hungry all of the time.
iii. vagina pt 1 no, iā€™m not going to ā€œcome for you.ā€ youā€™ve been touching me for literally three minutes and i donā€™t think you know how to do this.
iv. mouth in the story i tell, i say he locked the car doors but thatā€™s not true - i just couldnā€™t say the words. he didnā€™t lock me in, didnā€™t hold me down, but he might as well have because i couldnā€™t find my voice enough to say - no. i donā€™t want to. take me home. maybe if iā€™d learned that men give a damn what comes out of my mouth iā€™d have been more inclined to speak
v. kneecaps i learn how to fake a good sneeze to explain my watery eyes but sometimes the patterned grout on the bathroom floor leaves a maroon grid on my kneecaps and i havenā€™t figured out how to explain that yet
vi. cheek when you kiss me for the first time and put your hand on my cheek your palm feels like the pillow i can finally lay my head on after years of insomnia vii. chest my mind canā€™t comprehend what my body knows: iā€™m having a panic attack because youā€™re fucking me the way a stranger would. the touch is there, the (love) is not. my body remembers. you pack your white t-shirt into your duffel bag and the black pain that splits my chest open isnā€™t the pain of you leaving - itā€™s the pain of me, being alone with myself. viii. muscle when i finally unhook my inner self from her marionette strings she is furious with me. she is furious for all the times i taped her mouth, dazed her with whiskey, and snuck out the back door, searching for touch(love). her voice is hoarse from all the times she called out in vain - thatā€™s not love. she is skeletal her muscles have atrophied but she cleans house righteously. i watch in obedient silence as she throws away the bottles. the scale. she says, we have some mending to do.
ix. skin the cashier at the Goodwill on Broadway knows me as the crying girl who buys sweaters on Fridays. i prepare for winter the way a grizzly would i fall asleep dwarfed in sweaters. itā€™s not quite the same as your body holding mine but itā€™s just as warm and now i can sprawl across the bed like a starfish x. stomach to celebrate the New Year we wear wool socks and stand around the kitchen table knives in hand, we chop beets, cilantro, cabbage - bright foods that beg to be celebrated. my stomach howls at the full moon. can i love food when i was taught to hate this body? can i rebuild? xi. vagina pt 2 i splatter my sexuality across the canvas of this whitewashed town like a fistful of green fingerpaint. i come to enjoy her, this self who tilts her chin and volunteers the delicate skin of her neck to her lovers in the dark. this self who says, iā€™m hungry. i want. like this. i am wickedly unrestrained and slowly i learn that surrender is actionable and opportunities for pleasure are boundless. xii. body i have been courting my body. itā€™s early still, but i think sheā€™s starting to like me. iā€™m so hungry all of the time, she whispers. i know, i reply, and she nearly jumps out of her skin. (she didnā€™t think i could hear.) i smile devilishly, lead her to the grocery store, hand her my credit card. buy anything you want. i want nothing more than to spoil this woman. i cook her colorful feasts to the tune of jazz. i take her dancing. sometimes i catch her peering at the marionette strings hanging dusty in the closet. sometimes, she cries and i canā€™t assuage her fears. i donā€™t blame her. itā€™s hard to convince someone youā€™ve abandoned that you wonā€™t leave her again. so iā€™m taking things slow. itā€™s early still, but i think sheā€™s starting to like me.
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thanksanonymous Ā· 7 years ago
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early bird dinner [erotica]
I bat my eyelashes at the diner busboy in the hope that heā€™ll give me a booth to myself. I forego a menu in favor coffee and smile as he roughly slides a lukewarm dark roast across the warped wooden tabletop. The walls are painted different shades of mustard yellow: Dijon, Honey, Grey Poupon. I sip my brown water and look out the window advertising ā€œBreakFast ALL DAY!!!ā€ to the tune of a tinny 80s playlist, the effeminate male singers sounding constantly on the brink of orgasm.
I reach to pull a curl behind my ear and catch the unmistakable scent of myself on my fingers. I smile, Eve straight out of the Garden, and wonder who can make out the snakes in my windswept hair. The stooped, scowling man and woman here for early bird dinner? The pierced teen threesome eating Belgian waffles? The busboy himself, watching me from the corner of his eye and busying himself re-folding the napkins, re-stacking the menus?
Billie Jean comes on. I dream of splattering my sexuality across the canvas of this bleak, whitewashed town like a fistful of green fingerpaint.
Iā€™ll talk about sex over scrambled eggs, but I want the act of sex to be sacred. Pull my hair until I crick my neck, slap my ass and leave a deep red welt, but trace my face with the tip of your finger as if I were porcelain. And donā€™t you dare call it role play. This is divine. The beast of prey inside of you howls at the wolfess inside of me. You split me from the inside out and dip your wet tongue inside my raw, pink places. You thrust between my soft red lips and fill my mouth with you.
Midday, when Iā€™m hungry, I fold my body over my bureau and slip a finger inside of myself. I gaze empty-eyed at my delicate perfume bottles as I frantically stroke my g-spot. My face contorts, I arch my back and moan for you, ā€œPlease.ā€ Sometimes after I come, I imagine you wiping wet strands of hair from my sweat-streaked face and pulling them back in a firm fist, covering my panting mouth with your open lips. ā€œAgain,ā€ you growl, and force my eyes to meet yours as you roughly shove your fingers inside of my swollen pussy, loud and wet. My juices drip down your wrist.
The bartender coughs phlegm into a paper napkin as the TV news anchor warns against a batch of tainted vaccinations. ā€œSuperman, where are you now?ā€ whines Genesis. The sun has gone down and Iā€™m the only patron left. I order a Deluxe Egg and Cheese for $4.99. It arrives hot and dripping, strands of sautĆ©ed purple onion dangling over the sides like spider legs. I will eat this sandwich, wipe my oily fingers, pay in small bills, and shrug on my winter coat, exiting into the cold as an ambulance speeds by.Ā 
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Submission is as intrinsic to me as being a woman, as being attracted to men. Itā€™s not a flavor of my sexuality; itā€™s my total sexuality. Submission is all 24 tubs at HƤagen-Dazs, not just the butter pecan. Every glance, every touch is a wave in this invisible tide. Ebb, surrender. Flow, possess.Ā 
But Iā€™ve been swimming in shallow pools. Iā€™ve given myself to men who canā€™t receive me. Men who nudge me against bedroom walls and cough up commands that sound like questions. Men who shove themselves to the back of my throat but avoid my gaze as I choke for air. Men who spank my ass with limp wrists to test its buoyancy, not to remind me that I am theirs.Ā 
Iā€™m not sure who these men are performing for. Me, in some desperate attempt to satisfy? More likely their own idea of who they ought to be - the looming shadow that polices their masculinity. I imagine a darkly lit auditorium, a hogtied woman spread center-stage, a hairy, naked man nervously stepping from the wings, sweating. ā€œWell?ā€ bellows the lone audience member, the tall shadow, tapping his gleaming black dress shoe on the linoleum floor. ā€œYou like this, donā€™t you?ā€
Perhaps in the way women are quick to fake orgasm, men are quick to fake dominance. They believe it should come naturally to them. When it doesnā€™t, they risk falling out of an unspoken natural order, an order that persists in spite of our attempts to revise cultural narrative over the past century. Behind closed doors, we still expect men to have a glint of unrestrained savagery in their eyes. And most women are still not prepared to hear: ā€œActually, dear, I was hoping you could handcuff me to the four-poster and call me a filthy slut.ā€
So non-dominant men who find themselves in bed with submissive women narrow their eyes, inflate their chests, and experiment with dirty words, blushing all the while. But these performances are in vain. Dominance is a presence: it is either there, or it is not there, the way Susan is either in the room, or not in the room. There is no wondering. Dominance is a holistic way of being hinted at by language, movement, and the color behind oneā€™s eyes. The series of actions, the methods of touch - thatā€™s just the butter pecan.
I know this because the same is true of my submission. Girlish deference is my second skin. I tried to outrun her once, the hot tongues of feminism licking at my ankles, but she remains inseparable from me. Iā€™ve come to enjoy her, this self who tilts her chin and volunteers the delicate skin of her neck to her lovers in the dark. She is deftly compliant. She is wickedly unrestrained.Ā 
Many forget that, in spite of our docility, submissives are pleasure seekers. Perhaps the hungriest of all. Our submission is misconstrued for passivity. In reality, surrender is actionable and opportunities for pleasure are boundless. When a loverā€™s stare lingers on my body, I acquiesce to the power in his gaze. Iā€™m wet before he lifts a finger. The simplest phrases, even when spoken benignly, electrify: ā€œCome here.ā€ ā€œLook at me.ā€Ā 
There are infinite ways to be taken, so many more than there are ways to be touched. Impatiently, I wait for a man who understands the eroticism of subtle ownership - whose posture and gaze bind me as aggressively to him as nylon rope binds my wrists to wooden bedposts. I wait for a man who is unafraid of the sacred intimacy of utter surrender and control.Ā 
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My body sinks into the living room couch, a soft vee from head to toe. I honored Novemberā€™s arrival by wearing oversized everything: woolen socks, argyle sweaters, menā€™s sweatpants. I spend my evenings swimming in fabric. Four months single, I am haunted by the manic-depressive phantom that is my long-term partnerā€™s absence. As the nights grow colder and the pain of our separation hardens and shrinks in tightening concentric circles, I take comfort in these fabric silhouettes.Ā 
Cold rain streaks down the window. I dip a silver tablespoon into a jar of peanut butter and peer halfheartedly at the book sitting tent-folded on the table. Proud of my good intentions, I sit the spoon on my tongue and defer to my phone. I open a kinky dating app and peruse a parade of strangersā€™ faces. Simultaneously intrigued and mindless, I meet Mr. Buttons (long-haired, snaggle-toothed teddy bear), Daddy Dom (bearded, tattooed weightlifter), and M&M (gothic couple with matching apathetic gazes). Iā€™m quickly bored. Dating apps have proliferated so widely that not even the social experiment holds my attention anymore.
Bored, feeling anonymous and emboldened, I send messages to two men. Their interests range from ā€œrough sexā€ to ā€œspanking, gagging, and orgasm control.ā€ I muster all of the sex positivity I can recall from Bitch Magazine and Advanced Gender Theory to form a protective shield against the jarring sensation of talking about sex with strangers online. Our conversations begin with pleasantries, comedy and anecdote serving as dry cobblestones between deep puddles of lust and craving. I spend a few hours this way, eating peanut butter by the tablespoonful and tiptoeing, then stomping, through puddles without galoshes. When I pull myself from the couch, my heart is beating and I am drenched in rainwater.Ā 
My pupils dilate and replace the glimmer of pixels with the dim outline of the couch, the windowsill. Disoriented, I turn off the light and make my way to bed.Ā 
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The city bus wheezes down the street, the driver cursing fluently under his breath at rogue pedestrians. Itā€™s Monday afternoon and Iā€™m on my way to a date. I peer at my translucent reflection in the bus window, self-conscious of my body, of the way Iā€™m presenting my body to this stranger. Blue sweater and blue jeans veiling a living, hungry woman. I am a character in a movie called Social Convention. I am performing.
The cafe is crowded, overrun with bright-eyed academics and conventionally unconventional twenty-two year olds. To my right, two women lean forward in their high-top stools. They talk at a breakneck pace and gesture with manicured hands, aggressively inspired. Behind me, two male students argue unironically about the elitism of modern university education, spouting vocabulary words as if their professor were sitting idly by. I never knew sentences could contain so many clauses. Surrounded by Hamlet, Willy Loman, and Lady Macbeth, I am suddenly complacent in my role as an understudy.Ā 
Visibly bored, the pierced barista hands me an overpriced coffee in a mason jar. I weave through the herd of black coats, nondescript faces buried in their devices, impatiently awaiting their froth and foam. I promptly douse my drink in cream and sugar. One, two, three heaping teaspoons. As I reach for a stirrer, the man I recognize as my date comes in from the cold.Ā 
Iā€™m flooded with observation. He is a person, and somehow this surprises and disappoints me. He is slightly taller than I am. Lively green eyes and expansive, curly hair that reaches from scalp to ceiling, a few grey hairs mixed casually with brown. He looks pleasantly electrocuted. Iā€™m not used to men with this much hair. I imagine what it would feel like to have his beard between my legs.
I smile in greeting as we exchange a warm hug. His smile is unassuming and he smells vaguely of lavender. We sit and open our mouths to recite our scripts. To my surprise, he brings out a particular color in me; my script begins to feel less like a script and more like a blurry afterthought. I forget what character Iā€™m playing. He is easy to talk with. Our conversation dances intelligently between topics, sewing tiny stitches of tentative connection between us.
He holds a Ginger Steamer loosely in his hand: ground ginger, sugar, hot water. He lives in a cabin in Vermont without running water. He is here for a month-long musical engagement.Ā 
I pull a curl behind my ear and watch his eyes follow my fingers. I watch his lips as he tells me about his travels to Turkey. He asks me how I take my coffee.
ā€œHeavily creamed, heavily sugared,ā€ I reply, unabashed.Ā 
I ask him how he takes his coffee.
ā€œBlack,ā€ he replies, unabashed.Ā 
We smile and look down at our drinks. I wonder, are we always having two conversations at once, all of us?
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I try to quiet my mind before therapy but the minutes bend and morph defiantly. Every mundane distraction is tempting. The year-round air conditioner sits unplugged in the foggy window. Last monthā€™s faded issue of Time whispers my name from the chipped glass tabletop. I tap my feet impatiently on the carpet, battling my restlessness.
Patrice opens her office door and ushers me inside. Four feet and eleven inches, she is a powerful force, a no-bullshit woman. But Patrice stalks her prey. Every session begins with identical small talk: a comment on the weather followed by a short eulogy to the broken radiator. I wonder what weā€™ll discuss when spring arrives. We sit.
ā€œI went on a date today,ā€ I begin.Ā 
She is a falcon, feather to talon, and dips through the sky, biding her time.
ā€œReally?ā€ she asks, widening her eyes. This is news. Iā€™ve been mourning my breakup dedicatedly for months. I kick my feet up on the scuffed grey ottoman and tell the tale, smiling. As often happens in therapy, my story resists the grasp of convention - a floundering fish -Ā  before landing squarely on my kinks. I reveal that this date represents a side of my sexuality Iā€™ve been desperate to explore.
Patrice nods in an attempt to reserve judgment. Visually, anyway.
ā€œSo youā€™reā€¦ submissive.ā€ She draws the words out slowly, testing their flavor. I nod.
ā€œSo what does that mean for you?ā€ she asks, her eyes narrowing. ā€œDo you like chains? Do you like to be whipped? Beaten up?ā€Ā 
As she edges closer to hyperbole, her tone reveals the movie reel flickering behind her eyes: crackly images of dirty basements, rusty handcuffs, meek women crying and men with bulging forehead veins.Ā 
I pause. Swallow. I attempt to provide a description using affirmative language, speaking conversationally as if to say, ā€œIā€™m alright with this, and you should be, too.ā€ Iā€™m a virgin to this world, I explain, but even virgins dream of sex. Our lizard brains know the ancient temptation of forbidden fruit. We know we will enjoy it before sucking the juice from its folds.
I can tell by her face that Patrice doesnā€™t like this. She doesnā€™t like that I want my hair pulled, my lips used, my surrender offered. She wants to talk about my meditation habit and the boundaries Iā€™ve set this week.Ā 
She sighs. ā€œWhy do you think you enjoy this sort of thing?ā€ she probes. ā€œMost of my clients who are into submission have terrible self-esteem.ā€Ā 
The space heater wheezes on. I point my toes, relax my toes. Cliche loves this conversation, devours it greedily, but arguing with a therapist is more complicated than arguing with the misogynistic comment section. Patrice sits silently, waiting to see whether Iā€™ll drop my golden token into ā€œDaddy Issuesā€ or ā€œCodependency.ā€ Or perhaps, in a moment of profound insight, both.Ā 
Instead, I explain that my submission is intrinsic, simply a variety of sexuality. Itā€™s not a personality defect, I assert.
But I wonder.Ā 
ā€œWell,ā€ she honks, ā€œit sounds like youā€™re asking to be raped.ā€ She throws her hands up with an unapologetic shrug and a heavy metal grate falls between us, landing certainly with a clatter and a thud. I peer at her from between the rusty slats. I wonder what she sees when she looks back at me.
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10:30pm. A bitter wind whips against my shoulders as I stand beneath the awning of a busy Mass Ave bar. Sparkling in the thin air, the full moon looms wide above the street. I lean against the brick siding. Skateboarders speed by and pink-nosed couples pass, mittens holding mittens. In front of the bar entrance a group of hefty, bearded men in black hoodies pass a cigarette, barking laughter, their gravelly voices moistened with beer.
I feel a tap on my shoulder and turn to face him. His hair is pulled thickly into a curly bun atop his forehead. In the bright light of the passing cars he is more attractive than I remember. His reflective green eyes are stunning, still.Ā 
ā€œHi,ā€ I say, smiling. We hug, plush coat to plush coat. I feel a calm, stirring anticipation as our shadows join and separate on the sidewalk. Our words are genuine but easy. They veil the busy work of our eyes, dancing over each other in the streetlight glow. We begin to walk, destination-less, down the sidewalk.Ā 
ā€œWhere to?ā€ he asks. We scour the quieting street for a place to nest. A nearby creamery, five minutes from closing, catches our eye. The unspoken implication of a late-night date is gently postponed in favor of Brown Butter Brownie and Cardamom Vanilla. We place our orders to the tune of rags wiping plastic tables and chairs scraping across the linoleum floor.Ā 
We sit in the warm dark of his car spooning sweetness onto our tongues. To my surprise, my words make the journey from heart to mouth without interception. We exchange the details of our lives. He tells me his parents raised him in a cabin without television. They divorced when he was 28. I tell him that I used to work in politics, that sometimes my family feels like a constellation of disconnected satellites in space. We both separated from long-term lovers this past summer - him in June, me in August - and we trade stories of that brand of black pain reserved exclusively for heartbreak.
Mid-conversation, I imagine that Iā€™m a spectator to our exchange. I realize that this moment is a precious moment: this initial sharing, this first discovery. These are the details of a personā€™s life that, by repeated exposure, become your own, taken for granted over time. But upon first hearing, these details are golden groundwork - the continents on the maps of our lives. Later come the countries, states, and cities. But there is such pleasure in glimpsing that landscape for the first time.
An hour later finds us sitting in warm silence, our cups long empty and the dashboard flashing 12:03. The sidewalks are barren. Stoplights dance between green and red.
ā€œWould you like to come over for tea?ā€ he asks.
I feel my cheeks heat in the dark.Ā 
ā€œIā€™d love to,ā€ I say. He turns to face me.Ā 
ā€œI have no expectations about tonight,ā€ he offers, smiling. He shifts the car into gear and begins the short journey back to the guest house where heā€™s staying this month, quarters traditionally reserved for travelling faculty and distinguished alumni. Gingerly, we enter the front hall and climb the eighteenth-century staircase to the second floor. When he opens the door to his room, I can see itā€™s a humble space - barely larger than a hotel room - but in the short time heā€™s been here, heā€™s made it his own. A sprawling potted plant sits on the mahogany desk beside a leather journal and a short stack of books, most of which Iā€™ve read. Boxes of teas adorn the counter. A window beside the bed peers out onto the quiet residential street.Ā 
I take off my boots and climb enthusiastically onto the bed.Ā 
ā€œComfy,ā€ I say. He smiles and hangs our coats in the miniature closet.Ā 
ā€œIt is,ā€ he agrees. He faces the counter and prepares the electric kettle. Voyeuristically, I watch his shoulders tug his sweater as he reaches for a pair of mugs. Strong, lean, certain. His movements lack any trace of ego. My steady heartbeat echoes in my chest. Despite the unmistakable sexual tension, I feel at ease, like we could be old friends preparing for afternoon tea on the terrace. This space feels free, creative - like anything could happen here.Ā 
He hands me a mug boasting the scent of lavender and thick clouds of steam.
ā€œFor you,ā€ he says. We sit cross-legged on the beige duvet, kneecap to kneecap. Our conversation leapfrogs from the personal to the spiritual, the political to the sexual. An hour later we are lying upside down, our socked feet splayed messily over the pillows, our heads resting at the foot of the bed. Shoulder to shoulder, our curly hair frames our faces like Chinese fans. In a moment of silence, he lifts himself to rest on his elbow and looks into my eyes.Ā 
Instantaneously, the question is is asked and answered. He lowers his face to meet mine and our lips graze tentatively, then certainly. His mouth is warm and inviting, his presence embodied. We trace each otherā€™s upper and lower lips with our tongues, sucking softly, and when our mouths open and our tongues meet, I feel a fierce stirring in my stomach. Every sensation feels amplified in my awareness.
As his mouth covers mine, he reaches his hand into my head of curls, grasping tightly at the root, and pulls my hair firmly to the side. I moan softly, involuntarily, feeling a roiling cascade stampede through my stomach. The small act of dominance intoxicates me, a swift hit of pleasure to a first-time user. Iā€™m momentarily lost in the sensation of certain arousal coursing through me.
Ā He releases his grip and I exhale, returning to my body. He kisses me softly, and then suddenly tugs my hair again, exploring my reaction as I shut my eyes and wince, moaning. He leaves his hand grasping my hair as he runs his tongue along the delicate skin of my neck that has been exposed to him.Ā 
I am dripping.
He reaches for my body, moving his hand from my waist to my thigh. His hand is hot through my jeans and my skin tingles beneath his touch.Ā His body is lean but muscular. Exploring, ignited, I run my hands over his shoulders as we kiss. Coils of heat rise up through the fabric of his t-shirt. He tugs my blouse up an inch to reveal the pale skin of my stomach. With his hand pressed to the small of my back, he leans and kisses the small constellation of freckles there, traveling slowly upwards. When he has tired of the game, he uses both hands to pull my shirt effortlessly over my head and tosses it to the floor, lost.
He moves to lie fully on top of me. I feel protected, safe, my body small and warm beneath the firmness of his form. His lips move down the steep tilt of my jawbone. As if I were an exotic delicacy, he tastes me, running his tongue teasingly along my skin and then returning to kiss the same spot with care. Barely audible, my half-moans intermingle with my breath. At once, he pulls my hair back, hard, until the whole of my neck is exposed up to him, my head pushed down into the duvet. My moan is full-bodied, audible now. He devours my neck and collarbone without hesitation as his hand reaches down to my jeans, tracing up from my inner knee to the apex of my thighs. He lets out a soft chuckle of appreciation as he feels my heat. I'm warm and wet through the denim. Already I'm overwhelmed by sensation, his hand in my hair, his lips at my chest, his hands between my legs.
He runs his hand from my ass to my clit through my pants. His touch is void of the tentativeness so commonly found among men of my age. He has touched women before, he knows what to do, and I know he knows, and this arouses me intensely, this partner who knows, this partner who can solicit the reaction he wants.
I moan, opening my eyes in my pleasure as he rubs me. He is watching my face, watching the formless vowels escaping my open lips, taking in the tightness in my temples as my face contorts. He is worlds apart from the men who are too focused on their own pleasure to delight in someone else's. He delights in my pleasure because his hands coax it from me, demand it from me, and the moans escaping my lips and tightness contorting my face are his; my body is his canvas, my pleasure his painting.
It's not long before I'm left in just my knee socks and underwear. He removes his own shirt, his pants. I reach to pull my socks off, but his hands hold mine. "I kind of like them. They're cute," he smiles, shrugging. I leave them on.
He pulls me down beneath him and kisses me again. Our skins touch for the first time. He is warm on my cool skin. I feel my breasts pressed against the firmness of his chest. We explore each other slowly. He runs his hands softly but confidently up my sides; I bring my palms flat against his stomach, run my fingers through the hair on his chest, kiss his collarbone gently. He brings his lips to my shoulder, raising goosebumps on my arms. His tongue finds my earlobe and he licks, softly, before tracing my ear completely with his tongue. He brings his lips to lick, then suck, my nipple. He is gentle, and I arch my back and run my hands through his hair, thick and curly between my fingers.
He reaches beneath my underwear and traces me slowly with his finger as he kisses me. His hand feels shocking on my skin. I haven't received a touch this intimate, this intentional and present, in so long. I am positively wet, dripping for him, and he kisses me as he slowly enters me with his finger. I moan softly, feeling every centimeter of him moving inside of me, feeling my tightness around him. He breathes out, moderating his pleasure, and slowly removes and inserts himself again, this time deeply, until his finger is fully inside of me, his hand pressed to me. From within me he pushes firmly and moves his finger back and forth, exploring me and triggering twinges of pleasure and intimate sensation; he is reminding me that my body, my most intimate places, belong to him. I moan and breath into his mouth as his lips cover mine; we share the same breath, the same air.
As I pant, his finger deep inside of me, he brings his other hand to my hair and reaches to the root. He pulls my hair back as his finger moves inside of me and deep, primal shivers exit my spine, up through my sides, my arms. I feel my face contort with pleasure and when I open my eyes, he is watching me, his eyes hungry. He knows his hold on me is complete.
"Your pleasure is beautiful," he says richly in my ear. I feel exquisite, being watched this way - it feels too good to be true, that my pleasure - this simple expression - is enough to arouse him, to please him. These moans come from the core of me. I have never felt more authentic in bed with a man.
He removes his finger from inside of me and brings it, dripping to my lips. I smell the musk on his fingers, Eve liberated from the Garden at last, and keep my wide eyes fixed on his as I open my lips obediently. I welcome his finger into my soft mouth, and he exhales slowly, his eyes nearly golden in the dim light, watching my every move. I wrap my tongue around my own wetness and hold his gaze as I savor every drop, sucking his finger fully until it is buried in my mouth to the hilt.
When he is clean, he pulls his finger gently from between my lips and pulls me toward the pillows. He lies on his back, an invitation, and I climb on top of him, straddle his waist and bend over to kiss his lips, enjoying the gentle trace of my breasts on his chest. I pull his hair gently, submissively, and bring my soft lips to his neck, his chest, his stomach, fluttering kisses along his body. I take my time discovering him. I ask to remove his boxers and he lifts himself from the bed and he is lying, finally naked, before me. His hair is dark, black, against his skin.
I lean up to kiss his lips, meet his eyes with a smile, before returning my lips to him, kissing again down his side to the softness of his skin on his uppermost thigh. He is hard before my mouth but I wait, kissing either thigh, holding his hips in my hands and tracing the skin there. I kiss his pelvic bone and his hair skims my lips. I reach for him with my hand and feel the warmth and hardness of him throbbing against my fingertips.
I want to tease him. I want to pleasure him. I hold his cock to my cheek and tease his shaft with the tip of my tongue, savoring his warmth. I lick the head of his cock softly, once, with only the tip of my tongue, and he exhales deeply as I bring my tongue to tease the other side of his shaft. My mouth is screaming for his cock, but I try to have patience as I savor this part of him, taking my time and teasing his body.
His breathing quickens and he reaches down to encircle his hands around my hair, pulling it atop my head so he can my eyes, see my mouth pleasuring him. I look up to meet his gaze and our eyes lock - his stunning green to my deep blue - before I kneel between his open legs and open my mouth to him. He lets out a full-bodied moan as I take him slowly, fully, coating him with me, and slide my tongue up his shaft, circling the head of his cock fully with my flat tongue. I moan with him in my mouth as I run my mouth up and down his shaft in full, over and over, grazing the head of his cock with my tongue every time.
I pull him from my mouth, coated in my saliva, and bring both hands to encircle his shaft. I knead him slowly, covering his cock completely with my hands, tonguing the tip of his cock with my tongue. My palms are covered in saliva; he is rock hard beneath my hands. With a slow, tender motion, I knead him and lick the head of his cock rhythmically. He allows me free reign for only a few moments before he reaches for my hair and pulls my mouth down to cover him entirely. He directs my movements firmly, surely, pulling my mouth down to cover his cock in firm, rhythmic motion. When he releases me, he pulls me up to his face. I rub my hand across my lips before he pulls me down roughly and kisses he hard on the mouth. His energy is tangible, aroused, and he whispers into my ear, "I want to be inside of you."
Goosebumps spread across my arms instantly. I nod.
I hop from the bed ungracefully, aware of my nakedness and his eyes on me, as I bend over and reach for my wallet. The light blue Trojan condom that has sitting silently for a few weeks, awaiting a moment like this. It is slightly tattered around the edges after cohabitating with my debit card and cash.Ā 
I crawl back onto the bed and rip open the wrapper. He pulls me beneath him with one arm, and puts the condom on swiftly. In a moment he is resting in a bowed plank above me, the skin of his chest grazing my hardened nipples, his eyes looking into mine from above. I spread my legs beneath him, my thighs coming apart with the sound of a gentle wetness unfolding; they are already coated with me. He holds my gaze as he reaches down with one hand and guides himself to my pussy. He traces the head of his cock back and forth across my wetness deliberately, watching my eyes grow desperate and pleading beneath him, and in a moment he pushes the head of his cock inside of me. I feel the wide head of his cock splitting open my folds, entering my tightness. I close my eyes and tip my head back with a cry, a fierce fusion of pleasure and pain, and he reaches for my hair and pulls, facing him, eyes locked with his, again.
"Look at me," he commands, pushing fully to the hilt inside of me, holding himself there in ownership, and slowly, tantalizingly, pulling out. My tightness grips him like a glove but I am leaking around him; I feel my juices dripping out of me, down my thighs, my ass. Faint, breathless moans escape my lips as he fucks me with the greatest restraint. I feel my face contorting in pleasure, my eyes closing to protect myself from the overwhelming ownership of his gaze, but every time he tugs me back to face him, and our eyes lock in an unbearable intimacy. I am swollen and throbbing around him.
The pace is too slow to bring me to orgasm and all the more torturous for it. I can't endure much more for fear of splintering, or breaking into color, or forgetting where I am. Suddenly he pulls me to him and flips us over so he is lying on the bed, his hard cock still pressed to the hilt inside of me as I straddle him in the lamplight. It takes me a moment to remember my surroundings in the stillness, but when our eyes meet, a furious hunger seizes me and I begin to move slowly atop him. His hands encircle my waist, directing my movements.
Every inch of my body is electric; I am tingling from within. Our bodies are shadow and muted yellow light. I arch my back and lean, farther, riding him, seized by a primal energy. Goosebumps flare on either arm. For seconds at a time, I return to myself long enough to realize the moans floating through the air are my own, and then I'm lost again, captive to his right hand around my waist, his left hand that reaches behind me and slaps my ass with a hard smack, urging me on as I ride him harder, obediently. I can't tell whether we've been in this position for 30 seconds or 30 minutes; the frenzy of our pace clouds my mind with sensation, color, and the occasional sound of his low, steady "Good girl" as he reaches up to tug my hair and fuck me from below.
After a while I feel myself tiring, growing lightheaded, and without saying a word he grabs and moves me so we are side by side, him behind me, holding me. He moves in and out of me from behind, and with every slow thrust, I hear the sound of my wetness tightening around him and releasing him. I feel the heat of him behind me as my left hand drifts above my head, entangled with his right.Ā 
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thanksanonymous Ā· 7 years ago
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october
I am fully satisfied when I am known and held in the eyes of love. I have lain beside someone I loved, felt the steady maintenance of our tired hearts in the dark, and knew that I could sleep peacefully, die peacefully, knowing nothing more. Our love was scattered by a painful, bitter wind, but in its wake remains the imprint of that boundless peace, fossilized, permanently, in my heart.
Now I wonder at the daily wanting. I graze my fingertips across the valleys of that memory with an urgent wistfulness. Knowing that peace for a single instant was an eternal gift; I will never forget it as long as I live. Am I greedy, then, to writhe and howl with craving the moment it departs? What is more potent - the nectar of love or the terror of loneliness? How do I love someone without also seeking refuge in him?
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thanksanonymous Ā· 7 years ago
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august 23
once the last spools of grief have furiously unwound me once every limb has been wracked with waves of loss the pain departs without a whisper of goodbye and I am left, unfeeling, a tired, lifeless body craving only the cradle of the nightā€™s silent arms and dreamless sleep loss has simplified my comforts to the reliable, physical sort a warm, cushioned bed a steaming mug of tea a soft summer breeze through the open window that reminds me,Ā  ā€œI am hereā€ I relearn you in your absence. does love blind us to truth? or does love reveal a truth so blinding, so fantastic, that in its wake, we can only grasp at traces? for the first time, I feel the truth of impermanence ā ā€”Ā  the utter loneliness, the powerlessness, of being human. I am overcome with indescribable beauty, black tragedy, overflowing gratitude, and humility.
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thanksanonymous Ā· 8 years ago
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Watermelon Days
Days like this feel stolen. Chins buried earlobes-deep in that swollen green rind, jawlines sticky, grinning, we devour every morsel of this day.
We canā€™t contain this particular joy ā ā€”Ā  the type that fills our calloused soles with phantom mountain landscapes, our wombā€™s ripened nerves with sunbursts, the echo of unblemished spritesā€™ feet on new earth. We all unfold to stolen days like this.
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thanksanonymous Ā· 10 years ago
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from me/from her
from me
ā€œtell me what she looks likeā€ my voice, lazy golden honey waltzes like a dandelion in the sleepy summer air matchstick legs slung floorward
i imagine popcorn, classics, fleece blankets static-clung to naked knees i imagine swaying to the rhythm of your hands like an old familiar song
i want to reopen her eyes to the rise and fall of your sleeping chest ignite her veins with the red blush of blood as your eyes clear with the heat of a solar fare and your words cast nets across the universe
i bet she thinks i am naive i bet she thinks love is hard
sheā€™ll never know the beauty of stolen moments or how much it hurts to say goodbye knowing where youā€™ll go
from her
ā€œtell me what she looks likeā€ my voice, sharp as shattered chintz grates against the dirty dishes in the kitchen sink blouse untucked at the hip
i imagine calves, clenched, charlie horses beaten back between stick shift and thigh i imagine roving wide-eyed through your carnival mind like seeing color for the first time
i want to open her eyes to the arrivals and departures of your conditional love ignite her heart with the black tongues of fear as your eyes clear with the heat of a solar flare and your hands shake violently in a dance with your vices.
i bet she thinks i am uninspired i bet she thinks love is easy
sheā€™ll never know the beauty of boundless days or how much it hurts to say goodbye knowing where youā€™ll go
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thanksanonymous Ā· 10 years ago
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youā€™re just a kid
fuck me in the bathroom stall my blouse slung toilet-top and one lace sleeve dangling shuck the cool lock slick with grime, Steadyhand workman doublecuffs bunched over ink skin coarse black coils collar-creeping i shake just looking at you. fold me furiously split my hip on the porcelain sink i beg dam my nails with splinters sprain my hollow skin we fuck for the dead gnats in the red light we fuck for the rattling air vent voyeurs knock-ankled in scuffed black boots i cull shallow lovenames from muted drums muted voices hands slapping hands slapping hands clapping for us now knuckles youā€™re just a kid, you say youā€™re just a kid as you fuck me till Iā€™m jagged the cheek my father kissed this morning pressed against the wall now knees your name escapes my teeth, i i glimpse God or something like her in the stained grey sink grout in the taupe water trickling from the leaky tap in my blouse slung toilet-top and one lace sleeve dangling
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