IN PLAIN SIGHT, 2025

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IN PLAIN SIGHT, 2025

There are ways to hide while sitting right beside someone. Keep the plate full. Keep the conversation moving.

Leave the elephant enough room to become part of the furniture. After a while, you can almost convince yourself there is nothing left to address.

Almost.

This piece holds the moment someone I wanted to be seen by could see me—and I allowed it. I let their attention reach the place I had been keeping occupied.

Beneath the appetite was a longing I could no longer eat around.

To be loved required an allowance inward. A little less protection.

Enough honesty to admit that the love I kept hiding from was the very love I needed.

For a moment, I let myself be hungry in someone else’s presence.