STARGAZING Eau de Toilette minyakwangi you step into the darkness

you step into the darkness

the embrace of someone who left too soon but never really left at all

You and the blue fairy scramble to shove your ancestors’ notes into your one worn leather satchel

And when his hand found yours

STARGAZING Eau de Toilette minyakwangi you step into the darknessThe tea had gone cold. She hadn't noticed. Beneath the tree, the angel had fallen asleep. Her black dress pooled against the grass like spilled ink, and the leaves above painted her in dappled light. Shifting, flickering, a constellation mapped across her skin. Citrus and ivy tangled in the air around her, bright and green. Jasmine bloomed close, sweet and heady, the way summer always smells. He didn't wake her. Green tea lingered in the stillness,