Megan Cessna

Keeper of Faces

The pudgy cheeks were the most unnatural red during her first moments of life. I imagine she wailed at the tops of her lungs in her mother’s arms, and those dimples appeared. When her first steps would have become a confident run, her round cheeks nearly split her face in two--even as the little girl's features became more refined by the day. They flushed red when flying down her favorite playground slide just as they did when a teacher read the note she passed to a cute boy in her class.