Once in a Blue Moon

…boy meets girl, girl meets girl, boy meets boy — love flickers.

…the City convinces you to stay.

…you lose the one whose heartbeat mattered most in this world.

All signs of a full life — to fall in love, to feel belonging, to know what it is to be tethered to another soul. They’re the kind of ‘once in a Blue Moon’ events that craft the tragedy and euphoria of our lives.

Between the Blue Moons, there is intimacy and knowingness. Our patterns — traits, habits, vices — all exposed in full view.

Love fizzles so you get a bagel and call your best friend.

You miss the first train while overfilled grocery sacks naw away at the once-soft flesh of your palms.

You hear your grandma’s heartbeat again in the laughter of a stranger.

Littler things in the in-between know best how to tell our stories.