Tag: romance
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Navy
The shadow beneath your arm bent in a crook. Angled, in thought. You’re quiet, as you are when you’re lost in an idea. I would give anything to be inside your mind. Walking through the gray creases, putting my hand inside, wet, and cool, to see what I’d find. Something deep, smooth, a hint of…
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Spring Solace
I walk to local park near my apartment. I settle in, sinking into the grass, feeling enough distance from others that I peel my mask off. I inhale the sweet smell of daisy weeds scattered beside my blanket. The earthy, homey smell of soil beneath my bones. Doesn’t the smell of the seasons transport you…
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Bloom
On Monday, I buy my first record. We play it, while sipping a bottle of Cabernet. The haunting tone tries to cut through the patient space, opening the door for old ghosts to appear. White face, holes for eyes, looming to leave me with another cut. But the door doesn’t open. How could it? In…
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