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your love is the wind on water.  mine heaves deeper than cruel riptide.

Mom cutting Dad's hair in the kitchen. Feather voices because they are discussing matters heavier than water, jarring scrapes when they move the chair. Tufts of hair fall, touching the curved blade of ear. It is sharper, as are our brains, than you think, even as the night velvets. It pads alongside my cat, who sits behind the laundry room door and makes old saxophone sounds. I slip inside to touch the kitten scruf of his neck. How difficult it is, to definitively love or hate, when everything is so soft. From where I sit there are no windows and except for drooping eyelids I would not believe in the moon. Or in the swift autum