[ WP ] [ CW ] Make me fall in love with a character in 200 words or less .

I saw you 
 
 
 curled in a cotton- 
 
 
 soft maple-red sweater 
 
 
 arms stretched 
 
 
 and resting between your knees. 
 
 
 Across the table 
 
 
 I saw your teeth shine 
 
 
 in smiles and your train-track 
 
 
 thump-thump-thump 
 
 
 of a laugh, lighter and more 
 
 
 dove-like than the calls 
 
 
 of the doves themselves. 
 
 
 You lean in close — 
 
 
 our eyes almost kissing — 
 
 
 and then pull back out 
 
 
 to sip your tea and laugh, 
 
 
 laugh, laugh again. 
 
 
 Your legs cross, uncross; 
 
 
 your gaze, caught between my own 
 
 
 and the finger of heat smoke 
 
 
 rising from the tea, 
 
 
 and your hands clasping, 
 
 
 unclasping, stroking each digit 
 
 
 in the same wanting motion. 
 
 
 I saw you watching, in turn 
 
 
 my eyes, lips, hands, feet, 
 
 
 my flush — to match the too-bright light 
 
 
 waxing and waning 
 
 
 against your vacuum iris — folding 
 
 
 against the edges of space 
 
 
 — do you feel it too? — 
 
 
 this black hole between us, 
 
 
 sucking us, dragging us gasping 
 
 
 and panting, lovingly 
 
 
 into this new, pregnant darkness. 
 
 

