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Postcards for Me


A slower kind of closeness
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
Syiah Hill
Jan 262 min read


On being his
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.
Syiah Hill
Jan 264 min read


Notes on wanting softly
That moment—before touch, before speaking, before the story starts—has always piqued my curiosity—the location where one can dwell without feeling guilty.
Syiah Hill
Jan 224 min read


A Guide to Love (As I Know It)
An invitation to observe the ways in which love travels across the mind, body, and places between.
Syiah Hill
Jan 225 min read
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