Sublime

pinioned

ambivalence,

inscrutable

she had sacrificed everything she knew for a love as ephemeral and transient as the rainbows that glimmered through the sea spray.

Their interest was forever reflected off someone else, forever mediated by another aim.

mien.

a symbiosis that made her old life obsolete, had been temporary.

ersatz.

She was, quite simply, a nice lady who’d raised a family and now lived quietly with her cats and grew vegetables. This was both nothing and everything.