Love doesn’t always ask us to jump in all at once. Sometimes we start at the shore.
Skinny Dipping with Patience is a poetry and prose collection about the slow, uncertain, intoxicating process of falling for someone who isn’t moving at the same pace you are.
Told through five chapters of immersion—Shallow Sands, Wading, Swimming, Skinny Dipping, and The Deep—this collection follows a relationship as it moves from attraction and curiosity into longing, lust, vulnerability, heartbreak, hope, and eventually love.
It is a story of the space between two people who feel something real but don’t have the same answer for what it should become; it’s a story of wondering what you mean to someone. Of trying to be patient when your heart wants certainty. Of becoming completely vulnerable before you know whether they’ll catch you.
Through romantic, sensual, and emotionally honest poetry and prose, these pages explore the many forms of wanting—wanting someone’s body, their attention, their commitment, their love, and wanting to know where you stand.
This book is for you if you:
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Have ever found yourself in a situationship or undefined relationship
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Have wanted more while trying to respect someone else’s pace
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Know the thrill of attraction and the ache of uncertainty
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Love poetry about romance, lust, sensuality, and emotional vulnerability
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Have experienced the strange intimacy of being deeply connected without having a title
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Are drawn to love stories that unfold slowly
From the safety of the shore to the vulnerability of the deep, Skinny Dipping with Patience is an exploration of what happens when two people keep moving closer, even when they don’t know exactly where the water will take them.
Sometimes love asks you to dive in. Sometimes it asks you to wait. And other times, you have to learn to do both.
