The familiar scent of earl gray tea sends me back to my grandma's living room. When I was in elementary school, I'd come over multiple times a week and we'd sit on her off-white couch drinking black ... [+]
your macbook open on untreated pine coffee brimming with a milky fern cashmere sweater hugging your wrists, the sea an empty blue past picture windows home to a single seagull; always they smile at you, fellow stock people diverse in perfectly arranged utopia, their laughter superficial, conversation that would pass no Turing test; still when the sepia leaves of the kodak autumn fall from the trees in dancing whorls round two of you in the fading light and they touch your hands, your lips, hold you in warm embraces on rumpled sheets gray-white on beds in stormdusk light(n)ing framing your pe