the way they undressed: the rough, careless way they pulled off their shirts, dragging them over their heads, sometimes bending so that the shirt slid right off onto the ground, the knobs of the spine prominent under the skin; the practiced, unthinking way they unfastened their trousers, tugged them down, often while gazing out across the water or up into the trees; how they stepped out of their drawers, if they had them, like out
