The hot water streams over my body, engulfing me…My breaths become pants, then suddenly pause.My stare freezes at the water droplets passing by, as I see her face again.time stops…My breath removed, my blood gone cold, my heart drains,… like her.She is gone, I am alone.But here I can cry, here I can moan, here I can wail.My muted scream rises but is stifled in my throat.Later, I will be strong, I must be strong, I must be...

“Whoaaa…” I answer as the first gust hits and she heels over, her rail dipping into the sea. Her bow pulls windward and I pull the wheel back while easing the mainsheet. A few minutes earlier the fog had moved in, leaving me suddenly surrounded in mist. I could see the bow, but beyond that was a mystery. Worse than a mystery, there was a bridge ahead; a railway bridge, and beyond that another bridge for cars. But between...

Her avatar is a cause célèbre, in life a beauty to be seen, but my anxious heart intercedes, this image is my queen.- The words she writes may only seem, smoothly flowing poetic lines, yet in each line and each word I sense, her tender heart still shines.- In her daily strife, she sometimes stumbles, it is her one beau geste, I am there, to pick her up, to feel her pain, to hold her to my chest.- When she is happy, when s...