between peeling labels and lipsticked bottles

[from The Love Lettering Project V]

ice cream love

I say I love ice cream and you are offended,

ask how I can love you and love ice cream

but it just is how I love,

double scoops,

sugar cones and you.

[From The Love Lettering Project II]

when the season turns...

[from The Love Lettering Project V]

wallpaper and gasoline

Last night, I wrote the word love hundreds of times over and over. And debated plastering the airmail envelopes up in my home like wallpaper...

~


I love you tastes like gasoline,
a rainbow puddle
against the asphalt.

[from The Love Lettering Project: V]

ps: today, i'm in love with this art project: Take Picture Don't Steal

a-z and z-a

I will love you in alphabetical order,

and then miss you from Z

back to A

pausing on elbow’s envelopes

and knee’s careful commas.





(Crossing my fingers 


that you will be back 


by the time I reach your

arms).

[from The Love Lettering Project: II]

a november love letter

I love you
three steps up from the sidewalk,
where leftover Hallowe’en cobwebs
collect the beginnings
of a long winter.

The railing peels and I love you,
the porch light long since burnt out,
the streetlamp questioning the screen door
as you reach across the clutch of bikes.

[from The Love Lettering Project: V]

The Love Lettering Project V

The Love Lettering Project V: December 2009

[first kisses]

This year’s Love Letter project is just underway…I have asked people I love to send me the locations of their first kisses, along with the season of this kiss. And ooooh, the stories I’ve been getting! It’s amazing. Goose-bump-ingly amazing!

Sooo, I’m writing poems about these moments that took place in driveways and school yards, next to rivers, on porch steps and the backseats of best friends’ Toyota Corrolas – then I’ll whip ‘em into small pieces of art and slip them into envelopes.

In December, I’m going to deliver these love letters to places similar to these original kisses.

Keep your eyes peeled…there might just be a love letter for you*