Letter to my Son
To The Prince of Greenwood Manor, You are a jigsaw, you are my rickshaw. You are a friend on a seesaw, laughing and tilting . Laughing and tilting your head side to side as though you have water in...
View ArticleTo the blue boat, summer 2009.
I spent all day there on the dock at my nephew’s new cottage, doing not much of anything at all. I watched clouds slip across a clear blue sky, the kind of high slow-moving wispy clouds my dad called...
View ArticleTo the one who got away (before she got away)
This. This is what I want. To listen to you as you play songs on your father’s guitar – and sing you to sleep, to hear your voice every morning and every night, to hear the crackling of logs in the...
View ArticleDear Beautiful Breasts
Pardon my disembodied letter to you. I am writing to you because you deserve some undivided consensual attention. Since puberty, you have received a lot of attention on a daily basis. You’re large and...
View ArticleArctic Love Letter
I should have written you from the arctic. Now that I’m home, the tedious routine of everyday life steals some of the mystique… But I didn’t know until I was home that I would want to. We are so absent...
View ArticleDear Grandma
Did you ever know how much I loved your hands? You’d probably laugh, and tell me I was being silly, but it’s true. I loved everything about your hands. As a kid I would sit in your lap and put my hand...
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Letter to my first love
My darling, It’s raining outside, and cold. My thoughts turn to you, my first and longest-lasting love. It surprises me to call you this; it means so much I can barely pass words through clumsy...
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To J
Running Eastward I thought the line that tethered me to you would be pulled so taut over the prairies that by Manitoba it would be hair-thin and quivering under the tension. And once my feet touched...
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Letter to Baby
Autumn 2010 I remember the exact moment that you became real for me. We were slumped in the living room watching that cheesy Hugh Grant film, “About A Boy”. I moved in my half of the loveseat,...
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Welcome to the home of the Love Letters Aren’t Just For Lovers Gallery. This is where you’ll find the ten winners of the love letter contest, the jury’s comments, a place to leave your own two cents....
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