cj
calamari
New York based poet & fiction writer.
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“have you seen what i’ve become”
“I’m scared that we’ll always find our way back to one another. Aren’t you?”
“Yeah,” you said. “I think I am.”
You tucked your hand underneath my waist and kissed my stomach through my shirt. You made fun of me because I got hard. Although I probably would’ve refused to admit it, I knew that, if someone were to walk in on us, I would take my arm away from your body, act as though I had never kissed your scalp, never wanted to.
“It’s gonna keep happening,” I told you. “I know it. I just know it.”
I kissed the crown of your head with the same devotion and fear with which one kisses a crucifix.
(Fiction) Pub. May 2026, Santa Clara Review Issue 113.2