second skin

summer 2020.   a balcony,   a clothesline,   and the masks we wore like breath.

orange. black. floral.   each one a gesture,   a compromise,   a signal.

there was nothing romantic about it—   but still,   they dried in the sun   like any other laundry.

a new kind of intimacy:   fabric, filtered air,   what we held between us   and what we didn’t.

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