Road work, fresh green leaves, fallen petal shower, Palisades auto collision, German engineering (failed by), clay, rubber, glass and resins, the One (highway), incendiary, so we're all trying to, no-contact, on the porch on Lake Pontchartrain, I couldn't take my eyes off her, so dapper, her stuffed animals from cherished friends, whether to connect, sirens at midnight, approaching, a house on the sea, interloping, a duvet dyed lamb's-blood, zoom-in, insect-sized, microscopic, in the median's patchy grass, a cloud like a cat's tail, a sky like a computer screen, a one-armed hug, filterless, clean, solo, private access, verified one hundred percent real, a bargain, flickering.