Some say that they have seen the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich and the face of Jesus pressed into cloth. So, it seems I am not alone. I know this desire to see your beloved in the ordinary and in the everyday. For I see your face in the markings on a tile in my shower, Angled just the way it was that day on the beach, Mirrored this time, to lean in, to face me. Pareidolia, so the scientists say, is this tendency to impose something of meaning, some pattern, some connection, where, really, there is none. From the Greek para meaning 'instead of' and eidolon meaning 'form.' Well, yes, here is the truth of it. These markings are my instead of form of you. To have a semblance of your form instead of daring to have your form.