I remember the first conversation we had
When your vocal cords arranged the beautiful melody of

What is your desire?
Is it a heart shaped box full of chocolates,
long stemmed roses,
a bottle of

My teacher introduced a stunner, I drowned in that quotation

Bright-skinned and slim with a smile

(Commissioned by the Shetland Times, & published Friday 7 February 2014)

Tell me the world wakes

I can't send you a card.

What on earth would it say?
"Sometimes women do like women",
But

I took my feet down the street,
To a friend’s house of mine.
Wearing a Tux and with messy

The sound of the Lock turned by your key.
Starts a butterfly dance deep within me.

I think of

valentine's day -
the first ladybird pair
out in the garden