Day: June 12, 2023

couch, hands, catcouch, hands, cat

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 5:10 pm

this couch is nice and long
she said
even a person as tall as yourself
could sleep on it easily

i looked at her hands
her small and slender fingers

i like your hands
i said
i see myself holding them
in ways that might alarm you

i stood to leave
opened her door

she looked at her cat

stay
she said

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reading the palmreading the palm

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:09 am

our first date
wee-hours dining at an all-night place after the bar we met in had closed

she took my hand and turned it palm-up to read
the great love of your life will come to you in middle age

i assumed she meant this would be a happy event

i also assumed she meant it would not be her
she was twenty-five
i was twenty

we spent nearly every one of the following six hundred or so nights together
then one more some time after that

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