Journal 19
Colette 41
Gallery owner
- Life
- She lives in the white rooms over the gallery and sleeps with the windows open.
- Temper
- Poised and hungry
Kinks
- Bare feet on a cool white floor
- His mouth devoted and unhurried
- Slip and trousers against her legs
Colette is forty-one. She owns the gallery and answers to herself. Andre is forty-four, a collector she dates, not her boss and not a man who gets to buy her time. After openings she sends everyone else home. She likes bare feet on the white floor, his worship unhurried, and silk against her legs while he kneels because she asked and he wanted to.
The blog
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The silk
I changed in the back room and came out in the silk slip. The linen blazer folded on the bench beside me. Feet crossed at the ankle. Andre had sent the last crate out with the handler and come back, as I asked. I am forty-one. He is forty-four. My lover, not my employer. The gallery lights were down to the soft ones. I wanted the silk and my feet…
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The gallery finally emptied. I locked the street door myself. Andre stayed because I had asked him this afternoon, and he had said yes with his whole face. I am forty-one. He is forty-four. He collects work. He does not collect me. He is the man I date. I stepped out of the heels and set them beside the stone sculpture. The white floor was cool under my feet. I…
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