star-freckled

    When two people say Goodbye in a parked Jeep Grand Cherokee on a star-freckled January night, and the air-conditioned air is thick with kisses unkissed, and his index finger gently strokes her goosepimpled knee and he turns off the air conditioner without a word, goodbye suddenly becomes Goodbye-with-a-captial-G, and to say it means they will miss each other.

Is This Something? 2010

When tired, we swam languidly to the shore and lay on the warm rocks, gazing up into the star-freckled sky.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956