Literate.

Not above, perpendicular.

I can read.

And I don't mean words.

I don't mean sentences.

Even though, yes, that's absolutely true.

I am literate.

But I am literate in rooms.

I am literate in faces.

I am literate in screens.

I am literate in micro-expressions.

In the pause between sentences.

In the silence that fills the room.

I am literate in the way that I can already see more about you than…