These words are yours, borrowed.
Drawn from the air as you slide across the room at the edges, looking on;
Words from your questioning eyes as you speak with your groups and I with mine, side glances, lingering. Space demanding touch, fingers, lips, the curve of your neck, quick breath, delivering distance.
I fold them into my pocket, the unfinished words of coming and going.
Suspended they are, in the incomplete transaction, questions missing answers, leaving unsaid what hearts know but glances lack the courage to say.
In the puzzle at the corner of your eyes, the words of desire and unintended sadness unfolded, left crumpled on a side table as your back leaves through the tall, dark door, closing on that chance that I could place them gently in your hand or breathe them into your ear, softly, and brush away the mist of loneliness that hugs your cheek.
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About michaelstephendaigle
I am the author of the award-winning Frank Nagler Mystery series. "The Swamps of Jersey (2014); "A Game Called Dead" (2016) -- a Runner-Up in the 2016 Shelf Unbound Indie Author Contest; "The Weight of Living" (2017) -- “The Weight of Living” was awarded First Place for mysteries in the 2017 Royal Dragonfly Book Award contest;
Named A Notable 100 Book, Shelf Unbound 2018 Indie Book Awards;
Named a Distinguished Favorite, 2018 Independent Press Awards.
Named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2018 Big NYC Book Contest.
Named a Finalist in the 2019 Book Excellence Awards.
Named A Gold Star Award winner in the 2020 Elite Choice Book Awards
Named a Book Award Winner in 2021 by Maincraft Media Fiction Book Awards;
The Red Hand (2019) a Distinguished Favorite in the 2019 Big NYC Book Contest
Named Second Place winner for mysteries in the 2019 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards
Named a Notable 100 Book in the 2019 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards
Named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2020 Independent Press Awards
A Nominee in the 2020 TopShelf Book Awards
Named A Gold Star Award winner in the 2020 Elite Choice Book Awards
Dragony Rising (2022) First Place for Mysteries in the 2022 Royal Dragonyfly Book Awards; named a Notable 100 Indie Book in the 2022 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards; A Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 Independent Press Awards. A Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 Big NYC Book Awards.
