Stories tagged desire

The Belly Dancer

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The belly dancer waved a gauzy strip of blue fabric in front of her face. She flung it towards their table, but it landed feebly a few feet away. Donny lunged forward and grabbed it, then slid back into his seat, glowing. Mary Ellen reached across the tab

Gluttony

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I become the accumulation/ of appetites

The Small Blue House

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She allowed him to wash her hair. Touching it in a wet state, running his hands through it in a soapy state, wringing the water out when he was finished—he was ecstatic.

Miss Havisham's Fire

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. . . catching her breath somewhere between ecstasy and surprise. . .

The Purple Prose of Cario

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I contemplate the words that did not make it; the lost ones. The words deprived of their moment in the sun. These words. These words that are not part of the story.

Gambit

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and like the want of weather, we walk away or come close

The Boot

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my crotch-heavy press of 'Yes.'

The Karaoke Girls

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The Karaoke Girls are not appreciated. Not nearly enough and not often enough.

yearning for you

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beauty and love at first sight and this seemingly endless desire washes and cleans my soul and makes me feel weak

words, for you

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my eyes have seen many things over the course of my life to date; plenty is cherished, but too much has been monotonous, pedestrianmy hands, always striving, working, longing, trying for epic, eagermy lips would, if they could, be concerned exclusively with kissingmy …

Desire: First Love Poem

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Desire trumps wisdom.

Fifth Love Poem and Fifth Song of Despair

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how beautiful it could have been

Where would Desire wait

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. . . when distance loses memory in plain sight . . .

The Night Season

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the equator of havoc

Emily's Letter to her Husband's Lover

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I almost kept him on the shelf with all the trophies.