He is talking again.
“We are just waves,”
he says,
“Rising and falling in the dark.
“Swell, on a godless ocean.”
She indulges him
with her eyes.
“Our memories are nothing,”
he says,
“Just the moonlight
on the cresting water.”
“We rise, we fall,”
she says.
“We break,”
he says,
“Over and over.
“We always break.”
“But there are tides,”
she says,
“And currents.
“They are deep, surely.”
The urgency in her voice
makes them both laugh.
Their feet touch beneath the table and
they lean in and join hands. He can smell her hair.
A waiter brings more drinks.
They talk about something else.
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