Bright Love Sessions

The light is perfect,

people! We got ninety seconds,

tops! Grandma's blinking, Timmy's digging,

someone's chasing gulls. I set the timer,

I ran back, I smiled with all my soul — and the

wave came in and took my hat.

That photo's ten years old.

Everyone look HERE! (Look here!) One!

Two! — Where'd your sister go?

(She's in the sea!) Everyone look HERE!

(Look here!) I love you all so much

and this is why I'm yelling!

Say cheese! (CHEESE!)

Four hundred photos on my phone.

In none of them,

all five.

There's always one eye closed,

one back turned, one seagull photobombing live.

But photo three-eighty-one — you're all laughing at my hat.

Nobody's looking at the camera.

I'm framing that.

Everyone look HERE! (Look here!)

Perfect. That's the one.

Nobody moved. ...Timmy moved.