He’s the big affair I cannot forget. Only man I ever think of with regret…” —from You Can’t Take That Away from Me VALEDICTION Although I know I only make you ripe For another woman’s harvesting, I am glad in this: I have tasted your first blush. And in our […]

Passive Aggressive Valentine’s Night by C. Keith, NYC I’ve always been too shy to make a lot of noise in bed. I’m too self-conscious. But I did tonight just for you. Because I know you like it, and I wanted you to be able to tell just how much I […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as told at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak” I think of places like OSHO, the ashram of sorts, I believe, in India established by the fellow known in the 80‟s as the Bhagwan who, back in those days, would drive one of […]

topic: LOVE & HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at an Event themed “Great Expectations” Get to know Diego better by going Behind the Story During full moon nights she is never able to sleep. On those erratic nights, which might well happen more than once a month since her calendar […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Great Expectations” Everyone came to their wedding, everyone in the community and all her relatives from Israel, Monsey, England and Russia, and other Rabbanim from epicenters of study and leadership. He had never seen so many hats […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak” You were in a dream I had. I was buying candles for Chanukah at a supermarket and they huddled in a molten grey lump at the bottom of my shopping cart. The front wheel […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak” These words I put on paper What do they mean? A window in to my soul Perhaps, so it may seem. Words of hope, fear, and love But are there words of God above? […]

topic: LOVE & HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT Remembering the warmth and protection of my mother’s womb, I cried. I was in a strange new land, experiencing things that I had never felt before. I cringed at the noise that surrounded me; strange hands carried me away from my comfort zone. It […]

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