Contrast<\/i><\/p>\n
When he lays down with me, it is as if my flesh lightens, I become milk spilled against the shaded tan of his nutshell skin, we are so distinct. I feel drawn to our differences, how his muscles are shaped dissimilar from mine. The softness of my body, the taut, fragile corners of his. Sometimes I will wake when he sleeps and simply admire him, this curious and perpetually buoyant creature with the temerity to fall in love. <\/p>\n
We are so full of possibility, I can see it like maps on the inside of my eyes. <\/p>\n
Disparity<\/i><\/p>\n
He is slow to reply when we are sad, our bodies curled heavily together, depressed letters thrown to the bed in a mess. I do not react well to silence, not while asleep at night, not when we speak. His pause, the length of fifteen breaths, disrupts my communication, sends me casting nets, discarding what I started with, trawling the ocean of our alphabet for a topic, any topic, that will be worthy of response, anything to delay my please talk to me<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Somewhere in the gaps when he’s not speaking, there must be something to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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