Edvard Munch, Madonna, 1896-1902, litho in five colours

I like my naked women in art depicted in sharp light/dark contrast. It isn’t necessarily sexual (although of course it is), but it evokes certain emotions. The innate darkness of the soul, you might say. I’ve always craved that darkness but wasn’t prepared for it in the past. I yearn to be the contrast. To me, it is beauty. The perfection of imperfection.

Edvard Munch, Madonna, 1896-1902, litho in five colours

I like my naked women in art depicted in sharp light/dark contrast. It isn’t necessarily sexual (although of course it is), but it evokes certain emotions. The innate darkness of the soul, you might say. I’ve always craved that darkness but wasn’t prepared for it in the past. I yearn to be the contrast. To me, it is beauty. The perfection of imperfection.

Your view

Your view: the setting sun, bare branches, squirrels dashing about, wooden balcony slats, a screen door and its glass counterpart, mint green carpet, the very tip of a laundry fresh pillow.

My view: the loveliest hair, yours, glints of sweat on your shoulder blades, and a swarm of bright colors as all sense of restraint escapes me.

Your view

Your view: the setting sun, bare branches, squirrels dashing about, wooden balcony slats, a screen door and its glass counterpart, mint green carpet, the very tip of a laundry fresh pillow.

My view: the loveliest hair, yours, glints of sweat on your shoulder blades, and a swarm of bright colors as all sense of restraint escapes me.

in her embrace

I am sometimes too overcome with lust and distance to remember that the lips I yearn for smile sweetly, speak from the mind, reason from the heart, and can be as still as ice floes waiting for a sense of the sun. In those moments of realization there is a calming sense of sorrow. No longer am I the old boy, the wanderer lost. I am left in a new place where my own lips are exposed to the elements. In her embrace I feel the cold give way to warmer waters. The ice beneath vanishes until there we float alone and count the days with a kiss at sunrise.

in her embrace

I am sometimes too overcome with lust and distance to remember that the lips I yearn for smile sweetly, speak from the mind, reason from the heart, and can be as still as ice floes waiting for a sense of the sun. In those moments of realization there is a calming sense of sorrow. No longer am I the old boy, the wanderer lost. I am left in a new place where my own lips are exposed to the elements. In her embrace I feel the cold give way to warmer waters. The ice beneath vanishes until there we float alone and count the days with a kiss at sunrise.

If this, if that

If this, if that

If every damn piece

Of future we don’t have

Could bite our ears

It’d be in charge

Like the faerie devils

That we see on shoulders

Around the way

Sitting and chatting

Away the loneliness

Screeching of little white

Lies we want to believe

While hiding

And waiting for the shit

To tumble down the hill

Well no, well no

That’s not right

To say that

If this, if that

Is what we hear

And now

You got but one

Devil waiting when

You got on your hands:

A man who knows loneliness

Had wrapped himself

Up in a cocoon

And darlin’

He’s tired

Of if

If this, if that

If this, if that

If every damn piece

Of future we don’t have

Could bite our ears

It’d be in charge

Like the faerie devils

That we see on shoulders

Around the way

Sitting and chatting

Away the loneliness

Screeching of little white

Lies we want to believe

While hiding

And waiting for the shit

To tumble down the hill

Well no, well no

That’s not right

To say that

If this, if that

Is what we hear

And now

You got but one

Devil waiting when

You got on your hands:

A man who knows loneliness

Had wrapped himself

Up in a cocoon

And darlin’

He’s tired

Of if

holy

The word holy means something again. Holy, holy, holy… We can be holy, you and I. The spiritual realization is waiting. I am ready, but darlin’, are you?

holy

The word holy means something again. Holy, holy, holy… We can be holy, you and I. The spiritual realization is waiting. I am ready, but darlin’, are you?