True Birds
If the birds could fly away but never be out of sight and the sun shrink forever but never die, maybe Alicia would always love him, even after she had moved on. It’s also possible Marvin needed to stop gazing out of his window. But the room was lonely, and the night, with its palpable stillness, gave nothing to suggest that the expectation of romance only years of movie consumption could inculcate was imminent.
