06 September, 2004

A Lover's Quarrel

After that failed crepuscular intercourse she asked if something had been wrong. She coiled in muteness then ventured an old book from my mind. I dived into her seabed where corals petrified among untrampled seaweeds. I emerged gasping, our bedroom growing black. She felt asleep; her tears, another ocean.

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