coaxing

“We weren’t able to free it by just coaxing it out.”

Staff working on the project start early in the morning, walking around the docks and coaxing workers off the boats with promises of free health screenings and physio.

Then something subtle but definitive occurs as Chris rises off his couch: a man and a woman lean in and nuzzle his neck, coaxing both a shiver and a smile out of him.

Clinic staff start early in the morning, walking around the docks and coaxing workers off the boats with promises of free health screenings and physio.

I didn’t yet know how to trust food to become itself without a bit of coaxing, so I poked and stirred and second-guessed, throwing in handfuls of things that didn’t always belong.