—rainer maria rilke, letters to a young poet.

suente /soo-ent-ey/
noun
1 the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be in a room with them without thinking, without holding anything back, or without having to say a word—to the extent that you have to remind yourself that they’re a different being entirely, that brushing hair away from their eyes won’t help you see any better.

Southwest English dialect suent, easy, peaceful, smooth. Pronounced “soo-ent-ey.”

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Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Cutting Odette’s Fingernails”