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    Music Only We Know: Collected Love Poems of Paul Hina 2013-2016
    Music Only We Know: Collected Love Poems of Paul Hina 2013-2016
    Music Only We Know: Collected Love Poems of Paul Hina 2013-2016
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    Music Only We Know: Collected Love Poems of Paul Hina 2013-2016

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    Music Only We Know is Paul Hina's fourth installment in his continuing Collected Love Poems series. In his follow-up to 2015's Origami Moonlight, Hina uses his unique, impressionistic voice to take the reader on his journey to harness the whimsy, joy and frustration of man's desire.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul Hina
    Release dateOct 19, 2017
    ISBN9781370853618
    Music Only We Know: Collected Love Poems of Paul Hina 2013-2016
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    Paul Hina

    Paul Hina is the author of eight novels including Imeros, Let it Snow, and Double Play. His eighth novel, The Other Shore, was released in March 2016 with the story From the Boathouse in a single volume, The Other Shore: Two Stories of Love and Death. The Lavender Haze: Three Stories of Flirting with an Affair is his most recent release and includes three new stories. Hina has also published four collections of poetry including Such Deliberate Loveliness, Of Wanting and Rain, Origami Moonlight and Music Only We Know. Paul currently lives in Athens, Ohio with his wife, Sarah, and their two children.

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      Music Only We Know - Paul Hina

      Music Only We Know: Collected Love Poems of Paul Hina 2013-2016

      Paul Hina

      Published by Paul Hina at Smashwords

      Copyright ©2017 by Paul Hina

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      The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

      Music Only We Know: Collected Love Poems of Paul Hina 2013-2016

      Table of Contents

      2013 Poems

      2014 Poems

      2015 Poems

      2016 Poems

      2013 Poems

      1

      a single black curl swings over

      her face, droops like some tired

      hand reaching for the cocoa puddles

      that decorate her eyes,

      and she unconsciously scratches

      at her neck, smearing an itch

      across the vanilla lake in her

      throat,

      and there are flavors on her skin,

      mysteries packed soft as snow

      around her bones—new places

      to taste and discover,

      and the song she sends me is a

      map to better breaths, places to

      inhale all her layers, fly toward

      the core, the sweet center of her

      tantalizing, tantric rain

      2

      there's a sheer curtain lying over your

      legs, waiting to be lifted—a theatrical

      parting,

      and i listen for the song those legs

      sing with their smoothest voice to

      hear the light that rolls up and down

      their length and tickles my soul with

      laughs of words winding all the way

      up those thighs toward the poems

      you've planted on me with the playful

      purpose of growing velvet vines around

      my body, pulling me into a life less

      burdened, supporting only the weight

      of the birds we've bloomed to sing our

      bodies into pastels

      3

      she's a siren in the snow, a signal

      through the white crumbles of sky,

      a beam of perfect focus surrounded

      by the gauze of wintry stars,

      and she is the warmth huddled around

      the heart, the noiseless sound of calm

      that spreads over my art as she stretches

      her body out over the last dreary spell of

      cold blasted february, pushes the brush

      of my hands over her loveliest promise

      of spring blooms popping open while i

      count the infinity of whitest snowdrops

      that melt like breathy kisses over her

      thighs

      4

      your waves of lazy melodies weigh

      on my mind as your a-line dress creates

      heartbreaking shapes overtop my

      singing,

      and your uncertain eyes, self-conscious

      with doubt, send me to you on the stems

      of a dance, twirling words and sentences

      to show how graceful your slightest

      movement can effortlessly send me to

      the mighty shores of art's house

      5

      she's away and dreaming of me,

      making music from the cloudy memories

      i've sent her from my sleep,

      she wakes up listening for rainbows,

      humming my drowsy song, wondering

      where it came from, considering clouds,

      but the day moves, arcing away from the

      sun with that song just beneath the skin of

      the sky,

      and when the sun bows to the applause of

      the stars, the clouds hide beneath night's

      skirt with her smiles of sleep

      6

      she bubbles under the surface, breathes

      deep in the subconscious, leaves trails of

      memories all over my world like shadows

      or echoes i hear when i look into the slow

      leaves of a weeping willow or the clumsy

      cup of a daffodil,

      and the spring is where she hangs her

      sweetest song until she bursts above

      the surface, moves the consciousness of

      the clouds to show

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