[poetry] A Garden

To have a small garden with you,
filled with flowers of all colors,
blooms I’ve not used for love poems
for anyone else, in any other time,
that would be perfectly ideal.

But the world is not a garden.
Real life is a tangle of thorns,
roses with berry canes and blooms.
And I have done it all before,
but not half so well as with you.

Life is not simply a bouquet.
An adventure, a secret glade,
exploding with colors and scents.
In ways I never imagined.
Mixed with decay, it is still sweet.

Liv Dromen specializes in writing realistic, kinky, queer, trans erotica. She has been actively queer since the late eighties, when she realized at the tender age of possibly-too-young that having her hand down a girl’s pants (in public, on a bus) was quite pleasant. Other experiments followed. She is non-monogamous, trans, kinky, and magnetically attracted to awkward queers with cats. She lives near the fabled lesbian-centric town of Northampton, Massachusetts with her cats and her partners. She enjoys hiking, listening to klezmer music, drinking tea, and having lots of sex. She has been writing her Queer Quickies series of erotica off and on since 2011. Liv can be found at wordscanbesexy.com.