you were the person I'd call when the panic of tears honied my lashes together and sprung hot like rashes down my luke cheeks. you'd listen to my voice thick and jarred filming through your phone, slow like molasses and think like honey. you'd listen and when I fell as calm as a clam, you'd tell me, "baby baby,Β Β it's alright."
you used to compare my voice to honey, blue velvet and the nantucket blues. "As slow as honey, as smooth as blue velvet, as soft as hydrangaes." Maybe it was just the writer in you.