Love: Its Joys and Discontents
Writing that explores the full spectrum of love—its joy, tenderness, desire, friction, rupture, and quiet aftershocks. Poems and essays that sit inside the complexity of connection, revealing how intimacy can heal, undo, and remake us.
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Sepulveda – a poem
This poem traces the uneasy space between longing and fear—the rising water in the shower, the anxious dog, the coyote under a streetlight, and the trembling that comes when memory and anxiety won’t…
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At Sea – a poem
A surreal dream poem where a lover wakes clutching a whalebone as the bedroom floods into a dark sea, haunted by mermaids, a distant buoy, and the fading light above deep water.”
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[Say that I am welcomed, that I have gone mad]
A luminous homage to Maria Elena Cruz Varela, this poem burns with tenderness and defiance—where love becomes both rebellion and prayer, and the body remembers freedom through its own light.
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I will draw two ravens – a poem
I Will Draw Two Ravens is a poem about intimacy and the simple, vulnerable moment when one person asks another to open themselves to connection. It captures the directness of desire, the quiet…
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[My heart moves forward into the light]
A quiet meditation on love’s endurance and transformation. In My Heart Moves Forward into the Light, Chris Leibow writes of patience, absence, and the soft gravity that pulls us toward one another. The…
