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A Eutectic Entanglement

A Eutectic Entanglement

Peter wants to kiss Charlotte.

Peter wants to move in with Charlotte.

Charlotte needs a flatmate to help pay her rent.

Charlotte does not like coming home to her empty flat.

Peter holds Charlotte’s hand when they go to the cinema.

Peter asks Charlotte if she is lonely.

Charlotte says she does not know if she is lonely.

Charlotte takes Peter to the park and they feed the ducks.

Peter throws breadcrumbs while Charlotte just watches.

Peter asks Charlotte if he can cook her supper that night.

Charlotte does not like fish, but Peter cooks her fishcakes.

Charlotte wonders if ducks would like fishcakes.

Peter kisses the soft dimple at the base of Charlotte’s neck.

Peter licks the fat flesh at the base of Charlotte’s thumb.

Charlotte says it tickles when Peter nibbles her ear lobe.

Charlotte says yes, yes, yes but she wishes she had not.

Peter meets Charlotte in the coffee shop later that week.

Charlotte tells Peter, she has got a promotion.

Charlotte tells Peter she has bought a chinchilla.

Peter and Charlotte both walk home alone.



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The flatmate


Peter wants to move in with Charlotte.

Charlotte needs a flatmate to help pay the rent.

Charlotte does not like coming home to her empty flat

Peter asks Charlotte if she is lonely.

Charlotte tells Peter, she has got a promotion.

Charlotte tells Peter she has bought a chinchilla to keep her company in the evening.

Peter and Charlotte both drive home alone.

 

 

Notes:

Carcanet, Winchester Poetry 2023, OUP Zoom 27 Jul 2023, submitted to OUP 218. 219

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