• Made for: The Circuit - Round 5 @ Viibrmusic.com • Prompt: Shoegaze · Neo-Soul • Instrument: Trombone • Vocal: Female • Word to use: Moon ------------------------------------------- Mm— I had something to ask you. It’ll come. I’ve been peeling this same orange through the whole of your story. Thin sun collecting underneath my nails. You ask if I am listening. I give you half, forget to take the other for myself. There’s a low note in your laughter that arrives before the joke. I laugh too soon. You notice. Now I have to look at you. What a small thing— your hand, resting there. What a lot of work to leave it there. Give me a second, my wanting got here first. It’s already leaning over, letting every secret loose. I meant to take my time, let the feeling find its size. Give me a second— I’m arriving right behind. The moon is caught inside your spoon; you stir it out of shape. I ask an ordinary question just to hear the answer change the person I invented on the journey here. You hate the sea. I’d pictured us beside it. You say you sleep through thunderstorms. I like that I was wrong. A little of the dream falls off. You keep talking. I move closer. Give me a second, my wanting got here first. It’s already leaning over, letting every secret loose. I meant to take my time, let the feeling find its size. Give me a second— I’m arriving right behind. I could spend the evening making meaning of your knee turned a little in my direction. Or I could ask. How does a mouth so full of possibilities struggle with a question small as this? Would you like to kiss me? Give me a second. You smile and let me have it. For once I leave the silence exactly where it is. Your hand turns over. I put mine in.
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