A Moment Witnessed and Recaptured
Santa Monica Bluffs, CA–He walked up to the small patch of grass by the street overlooking the ocean. Arms full with a basket, his lithe frame moved with a slightly stooped gait.
He moseyed over to a thin tree and put down the basket and a coffee he’d somehow been holding this whole time, resting the drink on the tree’s waiting branches. He had a grizzled face, a dirty-blonde ponytail, and wrap-around sunglasses that lent him an air of inscrutability.
Suddenly, he stooped down and reached into the basket, hands emerging with a bloated black bunny within their grasp. The man removed a leash and tied the animal to the tree trunk in a vision of Easter come early and gone awry.
The man proceeded to make a phone call and drink his coffee, watching the rabbit out of the corner of his eye. His conversation seemed to absorb him, but not so much that each time the bunny sought to escape both its owner and its leash, the man was not there, agilely ready to keep his charge there with him.