Melanie Garber-Letitia
ORANGE PEELS
I rest my cheek on yours.
What a fit.
I didn’t know
this was a thing we could do.
You burn orange peels
instead of buying incense.
How strange,
to feel like I’ve known you forever.
I’m hungry for your lips.
Kissing is ecstasy.
Something I always dreamt of
but never knew for sure
until it came to be.
A CHANCE MEETING
Your eyes
cast mystery
and promise.
I like your hands.
It’s good to hear you moan,
see you smile lazily up at me
as our caresses lull to nothing.
Kiss me.
If only to seal off this
moment
of bliss
with a final punctuation.
Melanie Garber-Letitia is a Boston-based artist. She has a background in the performing arts as a director, actor and playwright. Her plays and poems have been performed by Whistler in the Dark, The Provincetown Theater, Sandbox Theatre and Mill 6 Collaborative. Ms. Garber-Letitia has written for the South End Newspaper, Huntington Theatre Company and Actors Shakespeare Project. She lives with her wife, Dani, and orange tabby cat, GT.
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