LENA

He had come home with something he meant to say.

He had forgotten what it was.

His coat moved in the specific and slight way of a coat in November air on an open terrace, the particular and small movement of fabric in a cold wind, and neither of us moved with it, neither of us used the wind as the particular and available reason to shift or adjust or create the distance that had not existed for however long we had been in this specific and two-inch territory.

I thought: I should step back.

I thought it in the specific and clear way of a thought that arrives...