held bespeckled I only want - ::time for truth:: - to be held. ::exhale:: yes, that's all. To be held, in this moment, is to right the world. 021008 ... raze i can't remember the last time someone took me in their arms and held me like that. like there wasn't anywhere else they wanted to be, and this was what our bodies were made for. if i lay my hands against my chest and close my eyes, i can still feel what that fusion of warm flesh wrapped in fabric gave to me. 230218 ... ovenbird She hasn’t seen these streets since childhood. Here is her father, walking beside her. She turns to him and says, “I don’t want to be married anymore. He wouldn’t help me though he could have. It was a simple enough task. He said I should do it myself or I’d never learn. He had done it himself a thousand times, but he wouldn’t help. He left me to flounder.” Her father is quiet. The leaves are a gradient of yellow to pink to orange and not a single one falls. She wonders if she could walk straight back into infancy. She doesn’t see any other way to be held. 261002 what's it to you? who go blather from