“It is very cold outside, though less so inside the car, it seems, with the kufiyya lying across the dashboard, forming a coiled snake ready to strike.”

“They checked in at the hotel that A. called in his head Hotel Auschwitz, then he spent twenty minutes shitting.”

“while the palms touch and digits suggestively link / so movement of the hands of each / does occur”

“By the time we finally reached the Castro, I genuinely believed Anne had gotten rich off being gay alone.”

“Craven traveled between several fourteen-by-fourteen-inch canvases, each depicting the moon at a different moment in its ascent above the Empire State Building.”