and all the universe rests in your open arms

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forms of love and longing, to you, you, and you

my dear friend A calls me a lover girl. and tbh yeah, he’s right, i’m never beating the allegations. i clutch at your shoulder blades, knuckles clenched, the slide of my callouses like plate tectonics against your skin. the word tears free, unbidden. ‘darling,’ i whisper. like it’s a salve. like i know you will be my ruination. you stand across me, somewhere between robert burns and walter scott. asphalt bridges the chasm of nearly a decade absent. and this moment should not exist. all i can think of is the train scene in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. velvetears croons on;…

and all the universe rests in your open arms

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