0019 Shopping

and as she paused at the store window her mind which was rose-gold that day, poured in a shining stream out through her eyes and through the plate-glass door while the air-conditioned dark richness of the salon opened its black velvet arms to greet her and even the security person smiled at the star-sparkle in her hopes and when she’d tried it on she walked towards the window beckoning him whom we had not noticed to come in and take a closer look honey he said you look just beautiful how can I look at the price tag when you look so great in it? when she came out and he had melted away into the crowd as if he had not been she was carrying wrapped in tissue happiness the silky slither in a shiny bag which proved the truth of what he might have said