Second Bloom
He kisses her on the top of her head, the morning version of a gesture that has a hundred versions now, and each one is its own thing, and takes the coffee from her hand, and they stand at the window together watching the September Begur morning become what it is.
Rosa arrives at noon.
She is in a dress the color of the sea — not the blue of it, the deeper grey-green of it when the light is low, and the water is full of its own depth. She has had her hair done, which Valentina has seen perhaps four times in her life, and she is carrying the sixth bowl, wrapped in the same tea towel, which Valentina did not expect and which undoes her completely for approximately forty-five seconds before she
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