Somewhere, some place inside myself, I am detached.
​ I have always been detached (in part). Always.
― Susan Sontag

I would like to watch you sleeping,
which may not happen.
I would like to watch you,
sleeping. I would like to sleep
with you, to enter
your sleep as its smooth dark wave
slides over my head

...

I would like to follow
you up the long stairway
again & become
the boat that would row you back
carefully, a flame
in two cupped hands

...

I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.
 - Margaret Atwood

These poems
they are things that I do
in the dark
reaching for you
whoever you are
and
​are you ready?
 - June Jordan

You may kiss me as much as you
like. I wish you would. I always
wish you would. I wish you always would. 
…
Remember asking, laughing, why
I write — used to — about the sea?
Kiss me. Tell me where you are.
_— Vahni Capildeo

​Being able to see the same spirit moving in different places,
different settings, different people and stories,
that's one of the blessings of art.
​— David Milch

Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa. 
― Dorothy Parker

​It's an earth song, 
A body song, 
A spring song, 
I have been waiting long for this spring song. 
—Langston Hughes

I'm trying something different with my images, reinterpreting them and finding new ways to see them.
​This is one of my preliminary attempts in a deconstructed paper collage. 

​jazzy jezebels
wear funk on their lips and blues
inside their red thighs
— Van G Garrett
​

No, you don't shoot things. You capture them.
Photography means painting with light. And that's what you do.
You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see.” 
― Katja Michael

​
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
— Douglas William Jerrold
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