The Portrait
*CA*
Every relationship has a day like this one: the two of you, feet in the crumbly sand, leaning into the wind coming off the waves and the sharp smell of the ocean, wanting time to stop because never again will you be this beautiful, this fresh, this much in love. He holds up a camera, and through it your eyelashes are twice as long and the salt on your face is like a thin crystal kiss. He can’t look away. You try to see him through the lens, try to slip around the physical impediment between your eyes and his and slide into his heart on the ribbon of his voice, laughing below the camera.
You don’t realize how sweet you look to the woman standing behind you on the shore; or maybe you do. Maybe you realize how short a time remains before you will exchange places with her. Maybe you do this as much for her as for yourself.
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