apprehend, v. My name, your tongue— two almost-strangers who’ve got nothing in common except each other. The notches in your spine, all seventeen of them, a through q, moving beneath my fingers in a long sigh, the body’s alphabetic diminuendo. It’s the pretty parts of you that got me hook, line and sinker. It’s for the ugly parts that I’ve stayed, strayed. It’s the fixability of another body, the number of skeletons hiding not just in the closets, but the attics and basements, too. It’s the bare shelves, the dust. The skin-dust, the bone-dust, the eyelash- and knee-dust. It’s the readability of the body. Bold print, several languages, and caution! warnings get their own chapter. Newspaper clippings line the inside of my skin like paper mache, announcing every insignificant event of this life so far. Still, I feel that I am something like a sonnet when you start to read me out loud, as you dog-ear certain pages as you go along, highlighting and making notes in the margins, smudging the ink with your thumbs. It’s the words we leave, the brief affairs had and remembered, the small volumes of ourselves we leave behind like beloved first-editions of poetry hidden on someone else’s dusty shelf. It’s looking at your skin stained by everyone’s stories, the alphabet dancing the tango on your fingers, the dust caked in the lifelines of your hands, how we’re libraries of everyone we’ve ever met. 

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