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Laciniate

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He drinks a glass of red wine every night before bed.

He always uses the same glass.

It would be perfect, if not for the crack that runs up its fragile stem to flower against the rim, the shivering petals opening into jagged chips, just to the left of his lips.

It's still beautiful.

Just like him.


*

I bought him a new set for his birthday last year.

You would think they were invisible if it weren’t for that layer of dust that found them, even in the cabinet above his sink.

He can’t seem to find a good enough reason to get a new one, or one he likes any better. (he tells me) But I know he cut himself on the rim, and stood staring, as his blood slipped across its surface. He still has the scar.

He cries salt every night for the sake of being picky.


*

They drank a glass of wine every night before bed, watching the sun set on the water washed cliffs, and drove home smiling in the fading glow of yellows and gold.

Until one night,

when they never quite made it home.


*

Only one glass survived.
It had lipstick on the rim.



*

He goes to bed sober,

and washes her cup every morning.
He falls asleep at 3 am, to the sound of her voice in his ear, and the flash of ambulance lights in his eyes.

And it is never his blood he sees against the glass, but hers, as he replays the feel of her hand in his, as she takes her last convulsive breath.




This sounded better in my head.
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beleave's avatar
and o, very sensual in parts. work on that angle of it.