I’ve been quietly reading through your work, having discovered it by accident, and loving it.

This poem spoke to me so directly – I feel suckerpunched.

I met an amazing man online, through our shared love of the written word, and we’ve been having a relationship fuelled by words out of necessity as we live on opposite sides of the world – we write stories, letters, talk often on the phone… but the absence of physical contact gnaws at us both, and I sometimes wonder if it will ever be different.

“Tell myself it’s better that way,

and fool myself that

I’ve kept you safe from me”…

I often read back through our letters and “cut myself on them”…

Thankyou for this. I feel less alone, somehow.

xx

“I cut myself on them

to make sure they

were ever said.”

Wow!

Dan