It has to be in sepia, with some of the lighter parts<\/p>\n
fading into some past century.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I simply can’t imagine you in colour.\u00a0 Disney characters<\/p>\n
live on colour, are shaped by colour.\u00a0 You, by contrast,<\/p>\n
I associate with scent, if sepia has any scent.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
If it has, then the scent of rosewood, as in an antique<\/p>\n
box.\u00a0 Mahogany doesn’t smell of anything, it is simply<\/p>\n
dark, but not as dark as ebony.\u00a0 Your features are dark<\/p>\n
enough, too dark to make out.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Except your eyes, which would be almost charcoal.<\/p>\n
Almost.\u00a0 What would really be dark would be your<\/p>\n
eyebrows.\u00a0 The sepia would soften them.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And the rosewood?\u00a0 For your hair, perhaps?\u00a0 It would be<\/p>\n
shorter than mine.\u00a0 The colour of dark henna, but<\/p>\n
henna has its own scent.\u00a0 That wouldn’t do, unless sepia<\/p>\n
and henna go together.\u00a0 Yes, that might do the trick.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Rosewood would have been too much.\u00a0 I would end up<\/p>\n
thinking of your arms, which have never embraced me,<\/p>\n
or your shoulders.\u00a0 Even without having ever met you,<\/p>\n
I can’t really think of you as a rose.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u00a9\u00a0 Ella Wagemakers, 05.55 Dutch time (= 23.55 EST in the US)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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