A Letter (Circa 2005)

(On the envelope it reads:)

Attn: Shroud of Joy
at the door of imagination,
first galaxy on the hard right.

Ripped from the belly of a
curdled canvas and delivered
in friendship and love - not to
be confused as one of those secrets

.this is REAL.
.LIKE THE COFFEE SHOP.

always Sincerely, but not without
my smile,
Ladie Dee

(The letter reads:)

Tonight my glass is raised in anticipation of you accepting me in to your arms - space - dark eyes and skin we are both, burning. Holy heads, you and I. Solely lovers, not destroyers. Naturalists, Spiritualised in a vapour of sensory awakening... and to think of it all my stomach swirls - and somewhere deeper in - so deep I don't even know it so well - I have a warmth.

OH KINDLER, YOU ARE MY CURRENT MAGIC - BARE CONSCIENCE, LEAVING ME IN AWE.

I would hope my heart never leaves yours entirely and that for the short times our minds and souls and black irises fused, we were common to each other as the very skin we were born in to.

This is how I feel:♮//♪♪♪♪𝄐!!★☒ I desire intimacy because I am confusingly and stupidly human: but intimacy is fleeting compared to an exacted and solitary expectation of each other:
TRUTH IS OUR KING;
LOVE HIS QUEEN;
OUR BISHOPS ARE LOYALTY;
OUR KNIGHTS ARE
F R E E D O M;
and we build CASTLES of relationship as a beacon to the ships of endless horizon.

(A Code:)
Each comma means "focus on your breathing", each period (.) means clap twice. each semi-colon means you are so cool and I will miss you heaps and each dash is a burial of my days as an eater of fish - - - xo

ho retsabala dloc
ho arua gniwolg dlog
ho won m'I ffo eht kcart
ho won I edaf ot kcalb