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

“And all along, what happened to that thing we had originally wanted?”

"Friendship affords certitude above all, and that is what distinguishes it from love."

“I understood that a crying man was not a gay man, and Stainless and I were not friends.”

“In that moment, he looked just like a boy to Irma. Head tilted down, palm turned out and facing her. She wanted to scoop his head between her hands.”

“Even as she thought it, she knew it was impossible to make everything overlap in a way that satisfied her.”