The new threshold is the space from your forearm and shoulder to mine
It is the size of the casual intimacy in a small discovered thing
You tell me the end of a whodunnit without spoiling it somehow
I sink into the uncomfortable temerity of loving someone for the first time
The humming, the infernal humming between us, as we sing softly

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Vale is a monster-loving, ADHD-managing, hubris-wrestling non-binary theatre practitioner and scholar. twitter: @evillittlevale IG: @evillittlepoet