Erotika — Phone

This is not about what we describe. It’s about the space between descriptions—the tiny gasp I don’t mean to make, the way you stop mid-sentence because you heard it, the way you then go quiet just to hear me breathe faster.

I close my eyes. The bedroom darkens behind my lids. Outside, rain stitches the air to the pavement. Inside, only this: the faint static of distance collapsing, your exhale threading through the speaker like smoke. phone erotika

The phone is a third hand now, warm against my cheek. Not the sterile, glassy cool of morning screens, but something almost alive—conductive. I hold it like a secret, like a shell pressed to my ear, and inside, instead of the ocean, there is you. This is not about what we describe

The phone grows slick against my cheek. I switch it to the other ear, and your voice follows me, seamless, like a ghost that learned to love the living. We are not two people in separate cities. We are one circuit, incomplete until the other speaks. The bedroom darkens behind my lids

But right now—midway through, at the burning center of it—the phone is not a device. It is an extension of nerve and need. It is the thinnest possible wall between solitude and skin.

Later, after the crescendo and the long, unraveling sigh, we will lie in our separate beds, phones still pressed to our faces, listening to each other’s breathing normalize. You’ll say, Goodnight, beautiful. And I’ll say, Dream in my voice.

Tell me you’re touching yourself.