Friday, May 26, 2017

AJ, aka Ariel

Adamant about the pronunciation, which was not the Little Mermaid way (air-e-elle), but Are-E-elle. They always tried to be both supportive, but position themselves as better than. Because they were a writing major, not minor, and they had read all the books. Appreciated more genres. Still, "appreciate", not-so-oddly critical without debate. They wanted we to know our place. Dry under wet them. We finger knit them. A scarf during a workshop reading once, it was a pale yellowy green. Their skin was softer than mine, no blushed. Hair cropped and black, eyes large and green, a bodied waif. No one could say they weren't a brain. I tried hard then too, to present without fault, paled with short and dark, failed, all loose and collared, covered more and more. Somehow presentation has never been so... Something in the cheek.

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