Thursday, October 25, 2007

I Hope You Like It

He mourns the aborted conversations, the stillborn words left to be rubbed into the smooth skin of the bar on Essex Street, an echo of the five fingers of his left hand pressed into her soft white sleeve, a memory of a dream of how it felt to kiss her lips.

“Thank you,” she said.

“I hope you like it,” was his only reply.

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