Composed Desire

Composed Desire

An apology from a terrible lover

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Umi
Feb 23, 2026
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“ Untitled by Lauren Withrow
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Parting Ways (Nika), 2015
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I am not good at long distance. Not because I don’t love deeply, but because I love in temperature. I love in kitchens, in doorframes, in the weight of someone’s arm going slack across my ribs at two in the morning. I love in steam rising from a meal I’m cooking, in clothes abandoned beside the bed that I’ll pick up and neatly fold, in the way someone e…

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