“A pigeon, a starling, and a grackle fly into a mall…”

“She saw the curve of her youth in the blacks of his eyes…”

“Somewhere fossilized, few and far between…”

“For a house, uprooted. For a voice, buried …”

“Could there be a softer Earth? A rounder Earth? A softer version of himself in a strange city…”

“I bask in this cool-girl-congregation we call female friendship…”

“Forced to wrap my head around the cellophane of the unknown…”