The Cold
The Cold The first suitor gives you a bird with yellow plumage, a gray and sharp beak. The tone of the feathers dazzles you, amazes you. Its texture caresses you already. You find the color, you don't really like, exquisite. But you think you might love it, enjoy it. A beautiful animal, but its song is brief, almost like a chirp and it never stops, it distresses you. A second suitor places his hand on your cheek. Then your exposed skin gathers a tremor without anguish on those fingers, a desire that changes on that hand to the shape it cannot change to on the lips. You look into each other's eyes and an insane embarrassment fills your cheeks with purple feelings. Your hair fenced with implacable relentless hairpins flaunts you differently: you're not a girl anymore. You drink from the glass set before you at the table, with fineness, with firmness, with hunger. The drink tastes flavorful and you enjoy it. It's s...