I am your hostage.

The curve of your back detains.

Your smile locks me in.

Each sentence you speak enslaves.

I am held in mystery. 

Bread and water sustain.

I dream of sumptuous feasts.

You toss me a bone sometimes.

I savor it like fine fare.… Read full post »

Sex is a puzzle.

There are more questions than holes.

More holes than pieces.

The shapes don’t match, not at all.

But they fit so well, oh yessssss.

Love,

David

Photo & text © 2010 David “Riddler” Kinne – art by Rainbow Girl ‘0… Read full post »

 When my brand new neighbors in Denver invited me to go along for a camping weekend in the mountains I was delighted. I hardly knew a soul in town except my new boss and co-workers, and to find my wife and child gone when I finally flew in for good… Read full post »

Tender

Are my feelings

For you. And wonder fills

My dreams of you, after so long.

Apart.

Love,

David

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     I play

         With words and I

                   Stray with ideas and

I slay myself laughing and I

                     &nb… Read full post »

 She had

   Fipples in her

   Nipples, yes she did. Oh!

   Suck or blow, melodic pleasure

      Would come.

Love,

David

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Two sounds

   It has to be

      Then four and six, but wait!

         After eight no gain again, two!

Cinquain.  

Love,

David

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Perhaps…

                There may be found

                A finer summer lunch

        … Read full post »

 It Was a Dark, Stormy Night

Chatting with a friend about her difficulties with driving, it reminded of an unforgettable cyber pal years ago in Seattle who had experienced a major panic attack on the San Diego Freeway, so now she only drives surface streets.

She was funny, very… Read full post »

 12/22/2012 –Day One After the Pockylypse - Open Call

While I was waiting for the water to heat for coffee, I clicked on my laptop to see if the Internet was back up. Nope, still no connection. No signal available on the cell phone either. And the power was… Read full post »

Putting the Gulf Oil Spill in Perspective

While we’re all holding our breath to see if the latest fix worked, I thought I’d point out a couple of things that the media is not telling us in the midst of the frenzy.

To begin with, there’s… Read full post »

 A Literary Attack - The Dog-eared Case 

(Another thrilling Dick Dangerfield Mystery - a trilogy in one part)

It was a hot, humid, damp, sweaty miserable day when I got the call. I knocked over the bottle of Hoppes #9 Solvent I’d been using to clean my .45… Read full post »

 Fretwork Birdhouses and Burning Books

The house we lived in when I first started school was split in two. We had the downstairs, my parents and brother and me. Upstairs, the space under the gable roof was much smaller, and a single man lived there. He entered and left… Read full post »

 The Story of My Life – Time for a Rewrite?

It’s disorienting to find out that a personal story you hold dear to your heart actually happened some other way. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes not so much, but it’s always at least a little disorienting.  What&rsqu… Read full post »

 When is the flying saucer coming back for me?

I was fully aware that I was different from other kids by the time I was six. I really wanted to play with them, but they were not nearly as enthusiastic about playing with me. For one thing, the games… Read full post »

 Fireworks!

It’s hard to ignore fireworks. I mean, why would you want to? I’ve always been entranced by the huge aerial flower gardens of flash and bang and streaming fire of all colors. As a Midwestern kid, the annual trek to a vast park, where 100,000 people gathered to… Read full post »

Online Dating – Part 6:  Staying Sane & Safe

I obviously wasn’t thinking too clearly about the depth of my experiences with online dating when I started writing this series. I thought it might be worth a post or two. But soon it became clear that 20 years of… Read full post »

 Online Dating – Part 5:  Social Media

I admit it, I’m a very tough match. I’m not an average guy on almost any axis or scale, with lots of complexities and contradictions, so it stands to reason that I’m not going to be attracted to, or attractive to, an… Read full post »

 Online Dating – Part 4: Matchmakers & Ads

After the better part of a year pursuing and meeting long distance dating prospects without success, I finally abandoned the practice, somewhat reluctantly. It seemed like it should work, and I was fully invested in the idea of a &ldq… Read full post »

Online Dating – Part 3

Once I had established a real relationship with a woman I met online I dropped out of dating mode, although I did continue to read and post and occasionally chat with other friends I had made there. For one thing, I was too busy… Read full post »

 Online Dating – Part 2

If you’ve read this far you may be wondering whether my first horrendous experience with online dating, and the first two rules I ran across in the process turned me off to the whole idea? No, after the shock wore off I went back… Read full post »

 Online Dating – Part 1

I was asked to expand on my earlier comments about online dating, and this is a subject I can write about from long experience. For one thing, I was a very early adopter. My first date after splitting up with my wife came about… Read full post »

I celebrated what is commonly thought of as a Very Significant Birthday (VSB) a few days ago. Now I can ride the bus for free, and I get $2 off at the IMAX Theater, so I guess that’s pretty significant. I don’t see a downside. Why do so many people… Read full post »

There was no Father’s Day card in my mailbox this year, again. No call, no email, no brunch, no gift, no remembrance of any kind. Not that I expected any of that, although I’ve never quite given up the slim hope that this year might inexplicably be different. I guess… Read full post »