Mi Amor
But I needed to think, and I thought that stripping down might help me get at what was going on in my head.
The beach wasn’t too crowded, and I found a big empty spot, between a pair of bears and a twink, laid out my towel, and pulled off my clothes. I folded them to make a pillow and then lay down on my stomach, the warmth of the sand rising up through the thin layer of terrycloth. The sky was a clear, cloudless blue, the temperature hovering in the low seventies, pretty common for late March. Easter was still a few weeks away, so I figured most of those on the beach were either snowbirds, tourists, or night workers like bartenders and security guards.
A few seagulls circled at the water’s