Nude Study.

 







“When my body and your body
Lie together under a white sheet
Your head on my arm 
Your leg thrown over my leg 
The whole long continent of you
The pale ridgeline of your ribcage and hip and thigh
Neighbor to me
There is nothing that needs to be explained 
Or accomplished, the world is at rest and complete
And though 
We drift apart in the eddies of the day
We will find our way back 
To the slight hollows that mark the place 
Where we lie now, astonished, saying nothing.”

- Garrison Keillor



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"When I jerk away from holding hands with you, I know these habits hurt important parts of you."

"Please don't expect me
to always be good and kind and loving.
There are times when I will be cold
and thoughtless
and hard to understand."