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When the wind blows I think that maybe you're back. The memory stained planks of our stoop creek and I imagine your bare feet wandering across them to the door once more. Such a beautifully teasing melody. Your familiar voice brings the delicate hair on my neck and arms to attention, my pulse heavily increasing. It's louder now. My heart wakes me, and for a split second I felt as if the flesh of mine was pressed and conformed to the perfect contour of your body. Instead, the leather of the couch you've left behind as a reminder moulds itself to the shape of my being. Cocooned in a cold sweat, the leather does not breath. Does not beat for me. Does not mind if I remain in this nightmare. In this instance I am plunged into what seems like the depths of the arctic. Drowning.
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Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 3:44 AM UTC
Stoop
When the wind blows I think that maybe you're back. The memory stained planks of our stoop creek and I imagine your bare feet wandering across them to the door once more. Such a beautifully teasing melody. Your familiar voice brings the delicate hair on my neck and arms to attention, my pulse heavily increasing. It's louder now. My heart wakes me, and for a split second I felt as if the flesh of mine was pressed and conformed to the perfect contour of your body. Instead, the leather of the couch you've left behind as a reminder moulds itself to the shape of my being. Cocooned in a cold sweat, the leather does not breath. Does not beat for me. Does not mind if I remain in this nightmare. In this instance I am plunged into what seems like the depths of the arctic. Drowning.
JMBaker
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Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 3:44 AM UTC
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