Postcards for Me

There is another way of loving that feels calmer, more deliberate, and quieter in a culture that is rapid with intimacy and loud about desire. It is based on focus rather than self-control or fear. On making the decision to stay, even when nothing is being taken, and to get to know someone before reaching for them. I want you to love me as though our relationship isn't centered on my physique. As though desire could exist in the absence of urgency. Love me as if getting to kn

Inspired by the quiet, devotional notes of Shyam (Nocturnereads), whose work reminds me that intimacy can live in fragments, in reverie, and in the unsaid.

That moment—before touch, before speaking, before the story starts—has always piqued my curiosity—the location where one can dwell without feeling guilty.

An invitation to observe the ways in which love travels across the mind, body, and places between.