“There are no words for the sight of a smiling face.”

“Her letter bled from word to word, in three sour sentences.”

“In a brief, surreal moment, she could see the young man he used to be in his smile.”

“Tree limbs boasted fresh baby buds and smiled at the brush strokes spread across the sky.”

“The likeness she had been searching for was on her face the whole time.”

“She smiled, not because she felt confident that she could think of a solution, but for the gratitude that she wasn’t quite so alone in her pursuit.”

“Parker stared at the bare branches along Saint Marks Place as they swayed with the wind, reaching for one another, and longed for the warmth of a million little leaves and their multicolored smiles.”