Spanish rain,
A maiden’s dress,
Apothecary pills
And ancient thrills;
Melancholy kills
A girl’s caress.
(—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)

“She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped o…”

“I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not th…”

“Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during …”

“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need …”