1: Unclaimed museum tickets in shackled hands; faded tattoos on pale skin with flowers kept under the bed; untied shoe laces in a gallery; shaken headboards in the ferry boat not taken; bare skin in a crowded fitting room; illicit drinks in hotel lobbies before the uphill walk to the pier; the citizen with a machine gun on the bus; and the forged signature from sweat left in its place.

2: A tracing of fingertips with a head rested on shoulder; the backseat of a car while the ocean passed us; shirts left to dry after a forbidden look into an eye; bands on a makeshift stage with milk poured from emptied jars; black leather boots on shattered glass; a bruised lip near a whiskered streetlight; a cheap ventriloquist with a tarnished ring; the book that never made it to print; and an anchor in a running shower.

3: A creaked crossing in carcassed wood, foliage flaunted past a denied drip, calloused hands lined at the winkles, his house of worship with harmonized breath, a creek stepped through slowly, her birds at rest in the oak, whispered words to the worn, coffeed breath behind chipped teeth, fingers bitten to stimmed scraps, mahogany on a teakwood floor, a shuddered spasm as sign of life, permitted proximity, and the stranger in my bed.

4: A selfish good deed, a statement in the gut, a shoulder turned in a doorway, a practice of gluttony in the face of famine, a body on a dashboard, a crack between a seat, a bruised knee, a third point in a triangle, a delayed grip, a one card left, a wandering eye, a cigarette, or two, a letter missing, a game of hide and seek, a firefighter and an arsonist, a court