love – Ishara K. Agostini

Love Like a Mango

Posted on: December 30, 2014 Last updated on: April 10, 2018 Written by: ishara Categorized in: Cultivating Softness

Dec 22, 2014 There was a fullness to our love like that mango just within your reach unblemished and warm falling straight into your palm eaten under the shade of the tree…

Tensions

Posted on: February 10, 2013 Last updated on: January 4, 2018 Written by: ishara Categorized in: Cultivating Softness

–> I am beginning to name my knots. Let one in my neck be Wanting from every time I clenched my jaw after breathing in her scent. Let the tightness in my…

Dear Beloved

Posted on: December 20, 2012 Last updated on: January 4, 2018 Written by: ishara Categorized in: Cultivating Softness

An open letter to everyone I’ve ever convinced myself I loved. I. I am still sorry. I fear that you were just the first in a long line of men I will…

Coming Out

Posted on: July 16, 2012 Last updated on: January 4, 2018 Written by: ishara Categorized in: Cultivating Softness

I read that we never get to stop coming out. Well I came out to myself the other day, Stepped out of my glass closet for a moment, Well, not so much…

An Education

Posted on: July 10, 2012 Last updated on: January 4, 2018 Written by: ishara Categorized in: Cultivating Softness

I want to learn the language your body speaks, Whispered by your hips as you move, Decode the ciphers between your sighs. I have learned the angle of your slouch, The spread…