''Window shopping, Santa Monica,' 2004
Nitsa
Grace Cavalieri

How It Started

The muscular man invited her
for dinner.

Unused to romance, 
she invited her husband along.

Oh, these were the days,
so innocent.

She filled her living room
with water to take a swim.

After the frolic he
held her under water.

This is not right, she spoke, but
the words floated and no one heard.