Dirty Laundry

in creativewriting •  7 years ago  (edited)

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Upon cleaning the closet I realized that you are still in there hiding amongst yesterdays dresses. I could smell your scent wafting as I closed my eyes to recall us on the Ltrain headed to a party; me in a vintage 1960s Bill Blass gown, my hair in zulu knots — You in a 1940s Swiss military field jacket, so tall with your dark hair slicked, so beautiful, your eyes pooled looking upon me.

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I thought I heard your voice like a breeze faint in the distance. Your nose on my shoulder in that crusty tub on Paulina St, how we’d sit in the bath forever; how we are still there, your hands on my belly as I lay my head back onto your shoulder, you kissing my neck. Running late and I slip into a 50’s Hawaiian muumuu fitted with a large orange blossoms print and low cut bust, your brunette curls falling to your chin, nude zipping me in with a nibble to my earlobe.

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You were here, just there, behind the last rack, in the pocket of a black silk chiffon dress that I wore to our divorce hearing. I found a snapshot of you and letter you wrote as I was getting dressed and carried it with me like a reliquary to our last goodbye; you looked gaunt, yet, still beautiful, all tall and pallid, gone but there as a corpse wet from the river with a trout in your left hand.

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I literally held my breath, and saw this through a melancholic veil.... lovely as always

Thank you, darling Vita. <3

I hope you are not close to those fires, terrible images I've been seeing.

Oh no @mamadini heartbreaking.. 💔

We divorced a long time ago now but it's like a death in a way, how the memory plays out and lingers, how sometimes little things bring it all back.

<3

Right in the feels.

Even after all this time I'm still tender to these blues.

Thank you @clayboyn <3

Wow, this is really good. So romantic, and sad, and beautiful.

Thank you @renodakota. <3

Lots of romance, beauty, sadness, and sex around that relationship (great passion), it all seems unreal now as it was such a whirlwind.

Thanks for sharing.
Makes me think of how bittersweet memories can be for me

Memory is such a strong force, the thing that connects us to things from the past is emtional content -- what an undertow to navigate.

Thank you for taking the time to comment @ericb :)

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