- black coffee and Christmas lights
and clean soil after rain.
- old ink on someone else’s receipts
and pencil lead fingerprints.
- misshapen vowels create sonic rhythm
like afternoon coffee.
- honeyed tea fogging windows
while turmeric runs noses.
- crowds hum with breath,
blanketing bodies in thermodynamics.
- grin like autumnal sun
and warm skin, thawing.
- steadily strengthened handshakes and
shakily sedentary knees
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