love letter [to a woman i haven't met yet]

romantic and private
a tightly-folded love letter
an act of intimacy in stone and glass

i want to build something for you

to wrench out the form of my love
to show you what i cannot say

i want to talk with you about architecture

but not in broad terms, in schools or theories

i want to talk about architecture as it relates to your robe hook

the way your dresses hang in a closet
where you set your water glass at night

to build you a place

away from everything else

a shrine, a haven

i want so badly to give you everything you want
everything

to worship you with casework details

and hand-wrought hardware

to see you walking barefoot down a hallway

built exactly for you

these photographs

this space

it was fun, sure

but it isn't what i want to be building

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