From A Red Journal

He picks her up and squeezes her body to his, then lets her slide down until the tips of her toes touch the ground, all the while kissing.

"I am an artist," he said, "I create with words. I can describe the feelings of your heart, plot the twistings of your mind, evoke a prickle of ice up and down your back and smooth your wrinkled brow with just a simple sentence, words in a row."

"I, too, am an artist, but my art is more exact. I can describe the birth of a snow- flake, tell you why a diamond sparkles, sprinkle the heaven with stars and the earth with life, with just a simple sentence, numbers in a row!"

"Hormones," she said. "Bliss," he replied, and they kissed again.

"Hormones," she said. "Beauty,"
he replied, and fell too.


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