The Face Beneath

"He says her name. She has never seen this face."

"Something familiar I cannot place."

"I was crying when you sat down. You were not looking."

"Because for six months I have been hoping you would call."

"Across the catering tent, he is looking at me the same way."

"You did not disappoint me. You unmade me."

"Don’t move. I want to remember you as you are right now."

"I want to know what we would have been if you had stayed."

"I have a preference. The preference is not the same as an opinion."

"I want to be named."

"This is what I look like."

"I do not know what you have done. Thank you."

"I have been waiting six months for you to know that face was real."

"His mother brings a photograph. He asks her to make his face one more time."

"We are looking at each other now. That is the whole story."