Cape Town, Hold That Thought — Pullover Hoodie

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You had a very good sentence ready for this photograph. Something about Cape Town, the light, and the kind of person who takes a trip without turning every lovely moment into evidence. Unfortunately, you are now trying to take evidence. Your hair has gone across your mouth, your friend is laughing, and the sentence has been reduced to a noise nobody will want printed beneath a picture.

The summer South Easter can be a strong wind, a fact you have understood with surprising speed. Your friend offers to try again when it eases. You arrange your expression. The wind rearranges it. There follows a short, extremely unequal negotiation between one carefully chosen pose and an entire weather condition. Eventually you stop directing the photograph and start laughing too. Your friend takes it then, naturally, while you are pointing accusingly at nothing.

That is the one you keep. Back home, it sits among the composed photographs with the air of someone who knows what really happened. You still remember the view, but you also remember having to pull your own hair out of your sentence, and the friend who found that far more interesting. Next time, you decide, you will let the afternoon have a few opinions. It seems determined to contribute.