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Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the t...more

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I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be self-destructive...I had no idea that you co...more

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Be with someone you don't want to be without.

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your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now yo...more

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I thought about the dog and was suddenly very sad; sad about her death, for my death, for all the inevitable dying that comes with change. There's no ...more

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You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it’s not my own face I see. Your body is twice. Once you once me. Ca...more

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What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I d...more

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Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

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What you think is the heart might well be another organ.

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Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.

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My grandmother whispering to herself, over and over, "David is in heaven now, David is in heaven now,' my mind repeating Schrodinger's Cat, Schrodinge...more

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Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?

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Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to stop this bacterial grief dividing and multiplying t...more

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Perhaps it is worse when love has flowed freely to find it one day dammed.

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And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.