—“Couple poses for romantic photo with lion”
– CBS News.com
D. and C. have been identified
as the couple in the picture.
They are profiled kneeling
and kissing each other
beneath an African sky shot cerulean and still
cloudless.
She: short, blonde hair, windswept.
He: full arm tats, dark hair just beginning to thin
at
the temples.
The caption for their photo reads:
Hard work in the Kalahari sun . . . well done.
The hard work lies
before them on its stomach,
head fully maned and resting its chin
between massive forepaws
reaching out in the way that stiff limbs
must always reach out:
for the prey
of empty air.