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STRANGERS (4-7)
a cultivated personality: any moment, taken sideways from another span of attention, and slammed down–or up into isolation, into a new cycle of breathing, of slow blinking, of a new kind of stroke. slow tilt to one plane of gentle touch down and around, but bold when traipsing loosely around a new stranger’s wrist, other wrist, slope of neck, edge of nose. bold. in a split gasp, stilled, pulled up and held firm and hair and up and heated blur-eyes and up and up again and enough no never |