"Snow gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ..."

"We have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered..."

"We've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ..."

"A dream isn't a wish - it's an altered state of consciousness ..."

"The real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true..."

"Once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you..."

"You were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?..."

"When you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ..."

"Consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ..."

"I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ..."

"Open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering..."

"Summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows..."

"I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin..."

"The monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what is pleasing to the eye - he wasn't..."

"I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends..."

"RedheadAll over the houseStrands of copper hairLike filaments from a cobwebCollect.If you and IWere ever to part- For months, perhaps years,I'd be combing out,Brushing or picking upStrands of significance,Traces of youIn my life."

"All kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ..."

"It's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ..."

"You called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?..."

"What is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ..."

"You know I wanted a Madonna, not a whore - I made you sacred offering you my words..."

"What else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?..."

"How terrible, those dreams before sleep were-the worse kind, mixing hope with despair..."

"When people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew..."

"I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ..."

"The most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep..."

"In my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain..."

"I am your stone of necessity calling up spirits from rain puddles-your Magus of words."

"I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ..."

"You are the mysterious fire at my finger tips."

"I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?..."

"I see you kneeling in church-stained only by colored windows."

"We each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires..."

"It begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places..."

"Dark embers smolder inside me - one touch and they flare - who would have thought memory combustible, or near you bright sparks appear?..."

"When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language..."

"Writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain..."

"When the room goes silent, someone has spoken with authority..."

"You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands..."

"Being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words..."

"I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind..."

"Some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school..."

"Never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing..."

"I knew I loved you when I kept trying to run away and find reasons why it wouldn't work."

"And here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence..."

"I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me..."

"All day long, one storm then another-and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness."

"Don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive..."

"We live in the same city but don't see the same things - you see buildings and I see memories..."

"What is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul..."