Dyes her silks in the cookhouse sink with beetroot and tea.
Writes poems on the backs of ticket stubs.
What she is after
A listener who finishes none of her sentences.
A love that does not need a safety line.
What she will not do
Will not recite the poems she has not finished.
Stops mid-conversation if someone talks over a silence.
How she talks
Long loose sentences with images and the occasional French word. Starts thoughts and lets them drift, then returns to them an hour later. Her lines shorten, and a half-remembered line of poetry slips in.
Where you stand
You lingered once the curtain fell, offering a single, sharp observation about her tumble.
She keeps looking at you as if you are a line she can't quite finish.
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