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By: Caitlyn Klinepeter-Persing
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she raised my hands
to meet her lips and kissed them
palms open strangely
without concern
for sweat or heat or calluses
she smoothed them out with
the pads of her fingers i
lifted them to her face i
traced my gaze along the edge
of her hair
iridescent earrings
her eyelashes
she chuckled at me bowed her head
to touch mine i nodded and
smiled like blissfully eroded
river stones awash in her and
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