Spring 2006 issue
Editor: Rennie Sparks
letter from the editor



I wiped your tears and sucked your cock


When I see ur smile face


We (with God's help)

I think I saw you getting coffee

The destruction radius of the MK19

Frantic over derelicts in the alley


I want you to feel empty

Every time you call my screen name

When I watched you from the bushes

I day dream about your belly button

When I see the rose bushes around the pool

I love the way you always smell exactly the same


It didn't leak oil anymore

Your password was 'PASSWORD' for god's sake

Your bitter taste

Her eyes sparkle like blades of grass

I can't stand you

The saliva of love

Passing like a moth's wing


That moment has haunted me for years

While you are doing your prison sentence

You smell bad most of the time

Not one atom in the universe

You could kill me if you wanted to

 






Valentine's Day 2006 issue
Edited by the website director Cindy Loehr



Ink

Overstuffed Luggage

Eyes on My Heart

Love and Empathy and Sadness

The Promise of Your Return

Living in a Storm

I Keep This for Very Long

Love Isn't Even Enough

My Feelings Lasted for 7 Months


A Low Level of Cruelty

Kids, A Dog, Some Fish

Love Feels So Wonderful

Written in the Stars

The Dry, Vulgar Smell

The Sun and The Moon

The Pain I've Caused Myself

Sprinklers in the Park

I Exhaled and Exhaled

Most Perfect Ending

Life One







Winter 2005-2006 issue
Editor: C.
Barliant
letter from the editor

 

Garlic Bread

This Time With Feeling

Different Worlds

On Task

Chemical Change

Why Aren't You Dead

Tough Love

Strange Family

Called To Duty

By the Seat of My Pants

Bébé Je T'aime

What If I Was That

I Am Leaving You

The End

Riverside Park

Tonight Is A Good Night

Prizefighter

Not Your Little One

One Way To Forget

Save The Next Dance

For Keith

Friend and So On

 




Spring 2005 issue
Editor: Michelle Grabner
letter from the editor



Final Farewell

The Right Words


Maybe I Was Wrong

Letters Will Never Contain Everything

Inner Warmth

Light and Happiness


Not An Easy Road

I Vow to Love

The Sweetest

Barely Holding It Together

Strong Feelings

Dead to Feeling


It Hurts

I Still Love You

All My Five Senses

Euphoria and Tears

4 Times My Dearest

All The Beauty That Surrounds Me


Some Thing Real

Nebraska Moved North

Ek-doon Varsche

Moving On

Dancing

 

 

 









Houston Public Love Letter Reading
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
December 9, 2004



Participants read letters submitted to or selected from the love letter collection. All names were removed, and the audience did not know if the letter was the reader's or not.



Laura Lark: So Glad You Moved

Chris Kelty: My Aorta Hurts

Anonymous: Untidy Business

Carlos Lama: 17 & 40

Paula Newton: No One Else

Joshua Eckhardt: Power To Rule

Maya Schindler: Hurry and Soothe Me

Mike Lewis: Painting During the Rain

Lisa Cooley: Skeletons in the Past

Dimitri Demopoulos: Touchy Screwy Girl

Esther Guillory-Kyle: Rest and Be Restored

J Hill: Two Socks Worth

Laura Lark: Your Boring Girlfriend

Paula Newton: The Reason I Walk

Demetrius Oliver: Pathways

Hannah Landecker: Don't Kill Benoit

Robert Pruitt: Captive Letter

Hillevi Baar: Sad in May

Chris Kelty: Conditional Permanent Resident Spouse

Paola Morsiani: Into My Blood

Michael McKean: Construct or Meaning

Jeanie Perdue: Part One and Two

Vinod Hopson: I Will Show You

 



PRESS: 12/9/04 The Houston Press

 

 










Fall 2004 Issue
editor: Cindy Loehr



I Destroyed That


Please Forgive Me

Veil Of Friendship

The First Move

The World Has Ended

Only Brought Me Pain

17 and 40

Calmly Walk

Yes I Have Change

It Takes A Man

Afraid of the Hollow

 

Problems Expressing Myself

Not for the Better

Your Mind Into A Life

Just the Dream

I Can Promise

If I Only Knew

I Do Love Him

Please Stay With Me

Undo The Past

Bothered In My Heart


Sweetness Can Rot

Destroyed My Dreams

Hows and Whys

The Tinman

Skeletons in the Past

With Every Life

Potholed Streets

Don't Kill Benoit

I Must Concede Defeat

The Reason I Walk

Drawbridges Secrets and Ideas


 

 

 

I Know You're Real

The Lake Isn't Frozen

Where I Belong

Two Fragmented Puzzles

Step Outside Your Head

 

 

Letting Go Of Meaning

Since This Is Real Life

My Cells Are Waiting

Returned To Life

So Late And So Absent

A Rosebud

Memories Locked Away

The Lesson

Figuring Us Out

My Pain is My Fault

 

 

I Will Show You

Sad in May

Dead to this World

What the Vow Means

The Idea of Rejection

My Aorta Hurts

Hated That Question

A Calling Out

Courageous Dreams

To Be Your Strength

Wordless and Wondrous

 



I Was There For You

Visiting a Cemetery

Bad at Living

Your Boring Girlfriend

Construct or Meaning

Masks for the Faces

Wanting to Fall

The Lightness of Weight

Terrifying and Beautiful

 

 

Suddenly With Two Centers

Since That Day

Young and Demanding

Fate Ripples

I Will Prevail

Conditional Permanent Resident Spouse

Butterfly Flutterby

To Romance A Rock

A Fire Grows Daily

You Accepted Me

In Due Time

 

 

Some Kind Of Goodbye

The Greatest Relationship

Emptiness Surrounds Me

What Love Letter?

Beyond Disability

Now I'll Hurt You

Now Life Is So Different

Locked Into Roles

Beyond Recognition

What Destiny Had Planned

 

 

One Glorious Week

Look Over Me

I Let You Walk Away

Into My Blood

Spot in my Heart

How Sorry I Am

I Ask For Nothing More

Two Little Buttons

Not Foolish Enough

Not Going To Settle

 

 

Won't Be Able To

What About Ours

I'm Having Issues

This Tree We Are Sharing

What Seismic Events

The Serious Implications

Reality Check

On The Bench

I Cannot Be More

Like A Soap Bubble

 

 

My Road Towards Healing

Jewelry Store

Your Eyes to the Sky

Through Every Lifetime

No Such Thing

Silly Boy Silly Girl

Kiss My Ass

You Wanted This

Forever This Way

Conditional Love

 

 

My Apology

Just Around the Corner

You Didn't Want to Hurt Me

Through All My Hurt

Catalyst and Witness

Not So Stuck on You

Unrequited Crush

Becoming Dead To Me

Wherever The Sun Goes Down

The Man From La Mancha

 

 

Plain Carbon Copies

Snip Snip Snip

A Love For Hate

This Aching Vessel

Basic Combat Training

Worth Waiting For

Only A Sea Creature

The World Went Away

My Prince Charming

Something Had Changed

 

 

Doubt of Reciprocity

Lost in Your Webs

Eight Turns From My House

Requited Love Denied

Two Pink Lines

You Never Tried

Communication Lost

Never Wanna Leave

Today Tomorrow Forever

Life Goes On

 

 

Indian Carpet

Our Convenient Situation

Painting During The Rain

Always Isn't Easy

No Lo Mereces

I Will Sing The Aria

I Can Handle It

Strangle The Sadness

Break Up The Love

My Perfect Woman

I'm So Sorry

 

 

That's Why

I Became

Nothing Will Ever

A Place Without Attachment

Pain Is All Gone

Murdered An Expression

No One Else

Someday You'll Be Here

Person I Know No Longer

A Second Chance

 

 

Boundless and Immeasurable

Master at This Game

Before I Can Go On

When You Show No Emotion

A Realization Today

This Old Vase

It Was Well Written

I Have Been Mad

I Can't Torture Myself

Pain of a Yearning

 

 

Whiteness of Snow

Strife Greed and Deception

Cannot Defend My Heart

An Antique

Gift In Exchange

Deep Tender Ineffable

Touchy Screwy Girl

Sounds of Self Pity

Wasted A World

Just Ain't Enough

 

 

Some Advice Though

Misplaced Time or Fate

Your Name For A Prayer

Words Unsaid and Undone

Hard Being Your Friend

Just Being Honest

Like A Phoenix

Not Good at Relationships

You Still Are

So Many Complications

 

 

I Would Act

Catch Me Baby

I Miss You Love

I Have To Stay Away

Parts One and Two

Please Forgive Me

Lost Confused Guilty

You Wear Slipper Socks

Goodbye My Angel

A Space In Between

There's No Guarantee

 

 

The Ice Queen's Heart

Everything But Penetration

How Dead I Feel

Tread Lightly

Didn't Expect

That's Power Darling

Trained Me To Run

Love Ain't Pretty

But Not Really

Rest and Be Restored

Saying Love

 

 

Free To Relive Ours

Fold The Laundry

Unspoken Yet Not Unheard

Something Won't Let You

Thousandth Time

Drain On My Soul

End Of My Journey

Captive Letter

Shitload of Love

Pledged To Others

Soft Sand

 

 

That's All I Can Ask

Promise Ring

Willing Conductors

My Blood Moves Listlessly

From My Lost World

Emotional Abuse

Not Hard Worker

Stuck In My Fate

Hope May Never Ignite

Power To Rule

 

 

Knowing Why

Can't Force Your Vision

What Is Good For Me

Why Do You Wait

More Than Life

I've Come To Settle

Things You're Scared Of

Time Is Not Now

Untidy Business

I Was An Asshole

 

 

We Would Feel

The Same Name

But That's Mine

Gonna Be Tough Times

A Very Complex Puzzle

Before The Wheel Chairs

Anyone Can Take Any Of Us