besotted

Where there is power, there’s also risk. To give voice to desire — to whisper or cry “I want you” — is to issue a challenge and admit vulnerability. It’s a declaration of conquest and a promise of surrender.What happens next? That’s up to you.

Early December in Croton - on - Hudson by Louise Glück Spiked sun . The Hudson ’ s Whittled down by ice . I hear the bone dice Of blown gravel clicking . Bone - pale , the recent snow Fastens like fur to the river . Standstill . We were leaving to deliver Christmas presents when the tire blew Last year . Above the dead valves pines pared Down by a... See more

William Blake and Emily Dickinson

“poems to which the listener or reader makes an essential contribution, as recipient of a confidence or an outcry, sometimes as co-conspirator.”