beautiful

been thinking about getting one for a few years now. still thinking.

seconds

It's your eyes, I said, and I could say no more. That moment, that atmosphere, suspended on itself. Charged. Electric. I could've leaned over - just leaned over. But that space opened like a gulf. It became precipice and brink, vortex, and void. And it would've been a great, great fall. From reason to desire, an impossible crossing, from universe to universe. Instead I let our silence fall. I remained where I was, leaned back, hesitant, desiring, scared. Almost, just almost. The moment passed. The moment was over.

M.

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Nose, lips, pressed into the horizontal of neck. An undulating parallel, merged, made invisible, replaced by scent, softness, and six seconds of youth, fleeting, made indivisible.

E.