On applications of skin depth:
Run your fingernails over skin: flakes in the air.
Skin cells lay on top of one another like fish scales to keep the body waterproof, protecting the internal organs from invasion by waterborne and airborne pathogens.
On our lazy afternoons together it seems more as though they were made for drifting in the light, and they evoke nothing about internal tissues except for the drum-drum of hearts.
Fingertips do not make good pens.
I have been writing messages on your stomach for over fifteen minutes and you have failed to sit up and understand.
You keep smiling — obviously you find this funny.
Maybe the spot between your collarbones is more sensitive:
I
♥
— You sit up.
How to get sunburn:
- Buy sunscreen (SPF 45) from Walgreens or similar retailer
- Drive to beach playing music loudly
- Once arrived expose skin to hazy light of coastal sun
- Apply sunscreen, feeling hidden texture of tiny hair follicles
- Immediately wash sunscreen off with sand and sea water (pretend you're laughing together in ocean)
How to treat sunburn:
- Apply moisturizer in copious amounts, pausing occasionally to administer cold compresses and forehead kisses
- Remember perils of hazy coastal sun
- Forget them next time surf report is good
The eardrum is an amazing thing.
The average person can hear a watch ticking from twenty feet away in an otherwise quiet room.
But, just to make sure, I whisper right into your ear when I'm saying something really important.
Your skin is deep enough to hold me always.