2023.10.29

Cleaned sheets wrapped around me, smelling the fresh linen scent

You looked at me, ready to get in bed.

You laid next to me to smell me and

Say I smell fruity, and I say it’s your favorite scent.

He smiled and said yes.

I did the same and said it’s your traditional masculine scent—the woody, piney, musty yet fresh scent—and asked if it’s Old Spice.

He looked at me and said,

What a guess, no

Ever since, I recall wondering about the way we smell each other in bed.

I wonder if it lingers in his head.

For me, here and there, I get a sense of it from the nature I like to be in.