exhale

His relief at the Serb edging past Alcaraz, 21, showed with a heavy exhale of breath.

"I don't exhale until January 24th," she jokes.

This is his cue to begin exhaling, mindful that the amount of air in his lungs will affect the degree to which his body curls and the force he imparts on the snap.

And then, for the first time in weeks, exhale for 48 hours.

And in that clearing, there’s a deeper exhale into herself: an existential sobriety and awareness of time passing, making everything glisten in a new light.