i will, i will

laura sat at a table. it was a circle. leo, too, had a round face, blank and eager and pure and after she dipped her bread in red wine he knew and leaned over. listen, he said, if i told you we would have children, and we will, and they have children, and they wlil, and the grandson on your birthday and his kisses a sepia face, a third eye, and the contact was like a dream that germinated flowers erupting in the living room we shared for fifty years, would you love me now? will you believe?