This work honors a found archive of letters and is part of an ongoing attempt to inhabit the voice of their writer: a gay man yearning for his lover across an international boarder in the midst of a plague. In the early 90’s both writer and recipient were HIV/AIDS hospice workers who knew fear and anger but chose hope and love. The letters offer radical self-transcendence and ideological resistance in the face of sickness and death. They are examples of ecstatic verse, belonging among the homeric and orphic hymns, the missives of Whitman and the lyrical writings of Dickinson. They are a reminder of the timeless need for connection. They long with an honesty that bends time.