Checkered Hearts
The love that was specific and undeniable and now, finally, visible.
He stepped onto the podium.
The embrace was three-way, public, visible — the configuration that was becoming their language for truth, the contact that was necessary and insufficient and essential and now shared, not secret, not hidden, not protected from interpretation. The champagne that was sprayed included him, the celebration that was twin victory becoming trio family, the us that was structural becoming visible architecture.