title: The Looking Heart: Poetic Expressions from Within
author:  Marc Lacy 
description: "Marc uses words to soothe the spirit, keep it real, and remind us of who we once were...and are." -- <i>David Person - The Huntsville Times</i><br /><br />"One of the most intellectual gifted, young male poets of our time." -- <i>BellaOnline.com</i><br /><br />"Thought provoking and spiritually uplifting." -- <i>The Literary Cafe</i>
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  ## She was looking up at him with swimming eyes when he bent down and kissed
  her.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Not a long kiss. Just a short, sweet one. Very sweet, although her lips tasted
  of salt and tears. He felt a peculiar little contraction around his heart as
  he pushed back from her and gently closed the car door.
  
  
  He looked over at Tierney, who was sitting exactly as he’d left her after the
  kiss. “Hey,” he said, and she swiveled her head toward him, looking dazed. His
  heart gave another of those funny kicks as he wondered for a moment whether
  he’d gone too far, crossed some kind of line with her. He sure hoped not.
  Because he suddenly knew that he’d be losing something of real importance if
  he had.
  
  
  Then she smiled. Just that. And he knew he had crossed a line—and that there
  was no going back now.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dear Reader,
  
  
  Have you ever noticed how sometimes our lives can take us on journeys we never
  expected, or could possibly have imagined?
  
  
  Several