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I Definitely Didn't Need the Extra Glass
Your mouth tasted like the heavy, iron-rich bottom of a glass of Petit Verdot, and I was already drunk on the proximity.
Marc's Umbrella
You are leaning against the marble countertop of the bar, your knuckles white as you grip a silver Dunhill lighter you do not use.
Did You Really Expect Me to Believe You Had Never Used a Pasta Press Before?
I watched the way your thumb smoothed over the flour on the marble, a rhythmic, unconscious erasure of everything but our immediate proximity.
Leave Your Ring in the Car
The jazz is a jagged thing tonight, all elbows and sour notes, but you are steady as a cast-iron skillet.
Watch the Perimeter
You tasted like copper and rain and that cheap lime seltzer you’d been nursing since the sun went down over the main stage.
September 14th, 5:12 AM
You stood there like a goddamn monument to my own poor decisions, dripping wet and holding a stolen bottle of Barolo.
Willa's Bracelet
The clasp snagged on the cuff of my jacket, a tiny silver anchor keeping us moored in a room full of people we both despised.
Gauge
I could feel the vibration of the tracks through her hip bones, a steady thrumming that made every slide of my hand feel like a confession.
The Salt Cave
I told him the mud wrap was a spiritual cleansing, but I really just wanted to see if his composure would crack under the silt.
April 12th, 6:14 AM
I’ve spent ten years trying to write a chemistry read that felt half as inevitable as the way your knees bracketed my hips.
—but you're the one holding the light meter
She’s standing there in that silk slip looking like a tactical error I’m about to make with my eyes wide open.
Watch the Rope
The linen of my sundress was scratchy against my sunburn, but his hand was rougher, catching on the fabric like a burr.