Loss



On the far cliff of the western tip shone a thin tall fire, a makeshift lighthouse you had erected.
I waved and I remember the slow wave you returned, hands placed together. You then dove into the sea, a knife between your teeth, reappearing with a long white eel. Hours later, I slept pressed against you, absorbing the cold salt of the sea from your skin, turning translucent as ice.

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