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I Loved You, and You Slammed the Door

Brian Looney

    I barked your name as you eloped upstairs, up to the private bathroom. I knew what you were doing. I wanted you to drop the bag.

    I wanted you to descend to me, though I was drowning in tequila fits and had no right to make demands. I had no right to make commands. You held the high ground, one flight up.

    Resentment knifed me from your eyes. You never knifed another like you knifed me that midnight. So I boiled, blind with hatred, sick with love, and the red-glow griddle was my drunkenness; the stretching sinew was my heart. Through it all I willed that you descend to me and me alone.

    You held my gaze and backed away. Insolent child, you slammed the door. The light played through the cracks: golden bars and lily-lines, the golden greatroom up the stairs, white within and green without. But I’ll never forget the way you held my gaze and slammed the door, and decisively shut me out.

    I’ll never forget the way you held my gaze and slammed the door, and darkened the head of the stairs. I loved you, though I didn’t pursue. I loved you, and you slammed the door.

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