A hospital glows near the overpass.
Everyone in bed there wears a gown.
When faced with the prospect of change,
I’m not brave.

While winter sun squints at the ghost flower

dying in its shabby terra cotta

far from home

She purchased a pair of wide-leg jeans in a wash called agave and left the store with a stride so light she barely touched the ground. She had come to the mall for one thing: to be seen.

“People are observing when they first get somewhere,” Sam said. “Or when they’re about to leave.” 

Grievance 10 is also not able to be analyzed. It seems you have submitted a recollection of a dream in which you and Susan are adults, old, with sagging breasts, inside a dressing room.

“Only people who have been in love can recognize other people in love, Ting thought.”