SINFUL DESIRES
She’d continue in the afternoon.
The noon conversations ran long.
Not because either of them made them run long.
The room was under construction and they couldn’t talk inside it during the work, so they talked at the kitchen table, and the kitchen table had a quality of no-agenda that the more formal space didn’t.
“The shelves,” he said, on the third day. “The way you’ve arranged them.”
“By category first,” she said. “Then by frequency of use within the category.”
“The books I use for work are at the front,” he said. “The personal ones are further back.”