purloin, v.: Holy to you, holey to me, even if no one but us should see them, I am still taking this pair away from you.

purchase, n.: Sometimes you buy things just to have something to hold on to.

punt, v.: You get that pun to a T.

punctuation, n.: I don’t mind that my love for you is a run-on sentence that defies the rules with exclamation points throughout.

pun, n. “I’m like a horse,” you said. “I want to live inside your stable.”

pumice, n.: We rub history against our skin, and come out raw and renewed.

pulse, n.: We love to a rhythm, silent until you feel for it.

pulp, n.: One love ends and it doesn’t disappear. Instead it takes a different form, pulverized material you will use for whatever love comes next.

pulmonary, adj.: A heart doesn’t mean anything if it isn’t beating time.

pull, v.: The farther I go, the more I’m aware that I’ve left the most potent form of you behind. Sometimes I feel you tugging at the string, and other times the string is simply not long enough to bear the distance.

puffery, n.: Even though I don’t believe you, I still appreciate you saying I look nice.

puerile, adj.: I know you are but what am I?

pudge, n.: What lightness I felt when I realized it was pointless to hold my breath around you.

publish, v.: There are the words we sat to each other, and then the step of being able to say them in front of anyone who may listen.

proximity, n.: Often I want you close enough to touch, without actually touching.

provocative, adj.: When your shirt rides up, i always look.

provision, n.: Always carry gum, and enough to offer everyone.

provincial, adj.: I tell you, if there was any sense to geography, I would have been born somewhere that believes cheese curds are a dietary staple.

providence, n.: Any city that lets us be ourselves as we explore.

provide, v.: I am the tightrope, but I swear I am also the net.