Assorted poems of different tastes. Assorted in english, the different experiences, though imaginary, will help you connect to each others in words.

Award-winning and beloved poet, Jean Janzen, has written her memoir. Although she writes here in prose, Janzen's poetic voice is unmistakably present. And so she takes the reader with her into the depth and texture of what she has experienced.

After a spur-of-the-moment one-night stand, one thing leads to another and they start living together. They’re nothing alike. Not in terms of personality, nor the way they look— there’s even a wide age gap between them. But...ever so awkwardly, ever so clumsily, they’re somehow fitting into each other’s missing pieces.

Onoe and Kaburagi have had some rough patches in their relationship, but the bond between these opposites is paradoxically stronger than ever as they navigate their unlikely love. In true tabloid style, this compilation of never-before-seen Candy Color Paradox side and bonus stories spills all the juicy details of their romantic life. Includes a 16-page color gallery with exclusive illustrations and comic shorts!

Saori has adored her older sister ever since she was little, but that’s exactly why she can’t just wish Iori happiness with her lover. Shizuku can’t stop herself from pushing away the only friend she’s ever had. The two of them, desperately alone and obsessed with people who will never reciprocate their feelings, repel each other as violently as identical magnetic poles forced together—but they might find they can attract just as strongly…

Heke and Lala met as strangers in an online game— but in real life, they are a manga artist and her editor, working together as closely as any two people can. At work, they bicker and complain, day in and day out. But come nighttime, their game chat is a flood of honest feelings. Could they ever manage that face-to-face…?

Kujou, a gym teacher whose past left her with a dim view of her prospects for love, finds herself pushed by her student Sugimoto into taking her girlfriend-search seriously. On Sugimoto’s advice, Kujou tries a lesbian bar, dating apps, anything…and falls flat every time. Was Kujou’s dejection truly just realism? Or is there some hope close by, where her fumbling efforts to find love stir a new emotion in another’s heart…?

Since meeting in juvie, Minami and Shizuku have been at each other’sthroats on more than one occasion—but the years have bound themtogether. When Minami tosses and turns each night, trapped by hertrauma even as she dreams, Shizuku steps in…Then there’s Heke and Lala, coworkers who are distant in person but when behind the avatars, screen names, and UIs of video games, they’re thick as thieves. For their relationship to grow, someone will haveto muster the courage to propose their first fac...

“What would I do at a time like this if I were an adult…?” Have you ever thought that—?If Saori had her way, her big sister Iori would always be beside her—where she could just reach out her hand and they’d touch, open her mouth and they’d talk. But now Iori has a girlfriend. And a job. And a lot less time for her little sis. Somehow, whenever she can’t be with her sister, Saori finds her classmate Shizuku—even though they seem to oscillate between friend and foe, stranger and confidant. W...

Memories from Shizuku’s troubled past have gotten between her and Saori. They share too much. Their hopeless loves, the ways they push each other away when they need companionship the most, their anxieties about replacing and being replaced… But maybe, if Saori swallows her pride and chases after Shizuku, they can make up by sharing two more things—a kiss and a confession!

There are things two people learn by living together and spending a lot of time with each other. Everyone has their good points and their bad points. Shinohara has come to see more than her fair share of the latter in Heke. But she’s learned something else too: She wants to be with Heke for the rest of her life. Heke and Shinohara’scohabitation continues, and their relationship—like everyother couple’s—deepens and changes.

Sugimoto feels she was pushed away, while Kujou-senseifrets she didn’t express herself well enough.And as they slide further and further apart, they eachspiral into reflection on their own pasts—the memoriesof failed relationships that burden them to this dayand keep them from closing the distance.But wisdom can be found in strange places… Perhaps an unexpected third party can help mend their rift…?