Lafayette and Canal

It snows and thaws, one after another. You sit in the park at Union Square, staring into the sun and smiling at the oddities of normalcy. How that which was once so far away is suddenly near; how everything looks the same in daylight, unexpectedly. Warm your frozen skin against that of another, find it alters the feel of your own. You walk with slower steps, but contentedly. 

She turns a decade and shakes her head into the beer. Says at least I'm spending the night with family, and your heart grows a hundred times at the words. You walk quietly to your new home downtown. 

Marvel at the prospect.