make this feel like home

the night starts with a flame that fits in the palm of a hand like a wine glass and ends in a forest fire so many mistakes begin with wanting to be warm

I allow myself to think of things beyond him / and I am flooded by them.

The album’s artwork is also very on-brand for the artisanal wood-nymph aesthetic he’s been cultivating — it’s photos of a delicate-looking Styles, naked in a bath of pink water, with flower petals and fruit peel floating around him or stuck to his hair. None of the shots Styles posted show him facing the camera, making the tone of the photographs even more vulnerable.

Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation midsentence. I would leave the bed. Instead, I hover over it for a second. I glance off in another direction. But I always glance back at you.