Lushen

Give me the alchemy that packaging promises, that brings out my eyes and raises my cheeks and softens my nose and lushens my lips.

Seeing, beneath age-lushened eyebrows, the look of worry in his eyes.

Cam once explained to my brother that Stradivarius had sprinkled volcanic ash between the wood and the varnish on his violins, lushening their sound.

And then he slid away. She was going to say something, but she was warm and soft—so soft, I couldn't stop running my hands along her lushening curves.