The Velveteen Gaze

Flowers in the window
Tammy Swarek

“...her intense and velvety gaze fastened itself,

glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive,

so corrosive, that you felt that,

in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin.”

― Marcel Proust

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

November, 2015