the unignorable brightness of water 

the unignorable brightness of water

(evelyn takes over)

They were quiet for a very long time.

A buzz of white noise seemed to be slowly prying apart the peace. Flo's hand on his forehead made Ansel close his eyes and try to ignore the hum. As it grew, however, it became unignorable. He opened his eyes, squinting at the brightness of the sun on the sand and on the water.
Flo's green eyes smiled at him and he noticed that her lips were an especially exquisite shade of fushcia. He shyly glanced away from the desire he felt while looking at her mouth but her caress reassured him. He again looked up at her face when through the lines of her red hair he noticed the blue sky. He noticed wispy clouds making shapes. This was always a favorite game, see shapes in the clouds. One cloud was shaped like a face with large hollow eye sockets. "Wow," Ansel pointed up and Flo moved back to take
a look. "A face in the clouds."
Flo leaned back to look and just then, in the blue of those hollow eye holes a pair of seagulls suddenly appeared. Each bird took an eye slot and for an instant, the face flashed consciousness on the couple on the beach.
"Did you see that?" Ansel asked, knowing that of course she did and was struck just as he was by the image.
The white noise was all this time growing louder and just then, as the wind swept the face away from the sky, a small airplane approached. It was pulling a banner which read, "...