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               “You think you’ll ever do it?” he asked.                “Do what?” she responded in own ask uncertain of question’s meaning.                “Follow your feminine urge, uproot and make this place your home?”                She’d thought upon it many times.  Never spoken, he read it mind, in the expression of her thoughts in times when […]

               Cold returned and so did they, away from the city to farm and woods and home hidden in the trees.  Opening door, they breathed the light-must scent of air unstirred since last when they were there.  Home and room were all the same, unchanged since last when they were there, as if they’d never […]

               Gentle.                Gentle.                She woke to the delicate and intention of his touch in trace along her line.  High to low, low to high; in upward path, stronger but still-soft press that split her warmth, its gift of sense upon his touching trace.                Sensing, receiving, she rested in the feel; soft smile […]

               “Thank you for the lightness I feel in the times we speak,” he shared as they traipsed slow through the winter woods.  Suspend of mist veiled depth of view and made quiet their steps in fall onto sodden leaves of the understory.  “I feel safe and trust, and when I do—I hope, which means […]

               He read the passage once again as he came to it in story’s page:                “She paused.  She was making two discoveries.  One was that you didn’t have to talk in complete sentences.  People didn’t seem to need more than a word or two to make their own sense of what you said.  The […]

        Worn out.           Peopled out.         Tired.         He rested alone in recliner chair.         Laundry machine whirred and zipper, button, or loose change from pocket clinked in the dryer’s run.  He didn’t want the sound.           He wanted silence.  He rose and shut […]