You Have Me You Use Me Dainty Wilder Exclusive

I. You hold me in the small quiet of a palm — a thing balanced between thumb and first knuckle, silver filigree catching a sliver of light. I am a pocket mirror with a lid that snaps and a hinge that sings like a tiny hinge when opened. You use me to fold a face into the neat geometry of introductions: jawline, mouth, lash line. Dainty, I fit into an evening bag beside mint tins and receipts. Wilder, I wake old scars with the flash of reflected light; I show not just what lies above the collar but the map of every sunburn, every freckle, the braid of a scar beneath the chin. Exclusive, I belong to you and the careful art of getting ready, a private ritual of arranging hair, appraising lipstick angles, practicing a smile that can be taken out into rooms and worn like a coat.

XV. You have me. You use me. Dainty, wilder, exclusive. you have me you use me dainty wilder exclusive

I am music. You keep me on playlists named after months. You use me to move through rooms: a sonata for cooking, a drum for running, an old pop song for crying when you are sure no one hears. Dainty music is lullaby-soft; wilder music is bass that rearranges the heart. Exclusive music is the song two people claim as theirs — a private anthem that returns like tide. You press play and I make seconds into presence. You use me to fold a face into