7.37: Apartment-block tops lost in mist; golden streetlights glowing; trees reshaped by vapour; stop sign blurred in shark-grey; distances cut by cold.

There was calm picking up and making empty disarray into empty order.

Back in our day
we had no regret
eating salmon croquette

Shorter hair now like right before the divorce when he barely noticed the highlights.

i heard that sandy unzipped

her face

right when she got to ma’s.

what to do when the neighbors put up a for sale sign

1. toast them with daiquiris. remember although you may think of them as friends, you were neighbors first. all relationships end.

suicide sound
sickly good
about now,
but what stops is

I picture him traversing the space what had once been rooms now wiped out

Jack and Amy Platon had parked next to a schoolyard where red crabs rippled like a river blown by the wind.

The signal was detected in mid-September. Statistical analyses of its patterns immediately suggested it was non-natural.

the salt-water smell's
been harassing you…

The tracks we followed had barely left the station
through the frost of morning…