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a ski lift ride with your attorney
a map of all the honeysuckle bushes in your neighborhood
a walking tour as a birthday gift
an apricot stone with our initials carved into it
a vivaldian sentence
an encyclopedist
a kinetic tide—when two tides come from different directions and trap a boat in its place for
years.
a puddle that reflects the ugly version
a faraway look
a paper trail
a writer who burns her stories and bakes the ashes into pies
a rule where every girl gets all her mother's clothes when she marries
a list of colors from Stanislav Lem's Solaris:
a pink curtain glowing brightly
a steel blue light
a warm glow of the red sun
a mist overhanging a black ocean
a blood red reflection
a crimson haze
a blue sun
a suntanned skin and a grey skin
a black pearly object
a chalky smell
a mountain, when you haven't seen a mountain before
a market where they squeeze the fruit's juice right into your mouth
a boy folding origami animals in the corner of the casino
a four way stop where everyone goes and crashes
a curtain that opens to another curtain
a lemon tree, a pearl onion, an engagement ring
a boy leaving his parents table at the restaurant to sit with other families
a train forever skidding on its breaks
a seagull riding the thermal waves in the air for 8 hours without flapping its wings once
a "useful melancholy"
a love that I would plant my flag on forever
a child detective
a child detector
a candlestruck, handshook, unhome
a ballet teacher who addresses the class as hogs and horses
a glamorous book
a long distance chess game where each player takes and sends a photo of the next move whenever they see a chess board in their daily life
a fetish where you stand above your husband as he reads your favorite book
a person who doesn't look like who they are
a boxer wringing the blood from a steak into a glass to drink during meetings
a classically trained person
a screaming dress, a dress for screaming in
a bird who flies around with the same piece of string
a hidden room in your house
a bank vault where you keep your perfume
a wine harvested by sheep, which involves them rubbing up against the vines with some sort of
basket attached to them
a wine store that sells wine rescued from shipwrecks
a book that doesn't show up in photographs
a beauty pageant for cabbages
a game of basketball where players chain-smoke and flick their finished cigarettes into the hoop
to get points
a concierge building a sandcastle in white opera gloves alone on a misty morning
a child who has a sleep mask made from two Best in Show ribbons
a stranger wiping his dog's mouth with your apology letter
a ghost that is a reflection of yourself.
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