So Close, So Far Away

On one of our first dates husband and I went to Taos. The clouds were low and large, as they so often are up there in the Enchanted Circle. "Maybe it's Him," I said. "He says He's coming back on a cloudy day, because He'll be parting the clouds like a curtain." I said that because someone had said it to me once. I said it because I wanted to see how Husband would respond, to see what kind of man he was. I said it because it wasn't the first time I had looked up at unusually big, special clouds and wished it was today. And it wasn't the last.