Code Red

Evening walk with Lola on Sandycove prom, everything bathed in the rich, heavy-grade light. And everyone out promenading, many with their children or dogs, or sitting on benches, such as this couple and their absent companion, the invisible woman who has removed her lingerie for a swim and forgotten to collect it. So someone hung it there for her to retrieve. Or maybe it means something else entirely: a flag, a signal.