Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us
Even so, she says, and Nate laughs again, expecting the hardheaded capriciousness, the stuck up nose and set jaw. ”Sounds like a deal darling.” Nate manages between chuckles, following her further along the creek, his own gaze roaming around the jungle, enjoying the dappled green light streaming around them.
Where Melita dances along the water, feet light and carried along by currents and breezes, Nate’s steps are heavy, encased in thick boots, sinking into the mud at the fringes of the creek and stirring up eddies of cloudy water. He gets distracted by some brightly coloured bird, it’s raucous cry almost cutting off the beginning of his nieces question. ”I dunno.” He offers after a distracted pause, leaning in to look at the bejewelled trinket. ”Maybe... a brooch. My nonna had all kinds of fancy things like that for church.”
Where Melita dances along the water, feet light and carried along by currents and breezes, Nate’s steps are heavy, encased in thick boots, sinking into the mud at the fringes of the creek and stirring up eddies of cloudy water. He gets distracted by some brightly coloured bird, it’s raucous cry almost cutting off the beginning of his nieces question. ”I dunno.” He offers after a distracted pause, leaning in to look at the bejewelled trinket. ”Maybe... a brooch. My nonna had all kinds of fancy things like that for church.”
these, our bodies, possessed by light
Tell me we'll never get used to it
NATE
