[for Dave] Not born a beauty. Cheeks planed and plunging, nose arched like a Roman-bred mare’s. Life scars, broken bones, time’s chasms and contradictions. Faith outweighs truth. Learn to dine alone, eyes shielded by my forelock. I can do this. No flinching. The book, the meal, the day, wearing solitude like my prayer shawl. When […]
Filed under: dee Hobsbawn-Smith by akublik Date 28 January, 2010
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1. Pull. Magnets rattle loose in his blood, radar locked when he crosses her path. Particles charged with aches he cannot identify or locate, maverick monkey-stars set adrift from their orbit. 2. Watch your step. Collide. He watches her back, her skin sliding down her skirt, cotton so careless, flesh loose in the breeze, lifts […]
Filed under: dee Hobsbawn-Smith by akublik Date 25 January, 2010
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