original perspective
— A circus where performers swap acts transforms into animals and objects overnight, then mysteriously returns to normal the next day.
— A 13-year-old observes graduation season from a Manhattan hotel, watching anxious parents at breakfast and contemplating the hidden world awaiting both graduates and herself.
— A winter morning walk to art class transforms when the speaker notices the river's muddy ice, mallard, and debris become a still life waiting to be painted.
— A meditation on trust through two contrasting images: a dog with a chess piece and the persistence of hope despite love's impermanence.
— A young traveler contrasts swimming in the stormy Pacific and touching dead jellyfish with glimpses of urban decay seen from a bus window in a Chilean coastal city.
— A prose poem captures running with a silver poodle by the ocean, where salt air mingles with thoughts of politics and stars emerge from boredom.
— A prose poem imagines the inner life of a crab—its loneliness, fear, and anger—questioning whether people remember the being they've hurt after mounting it on a wall.
— Hope personified as an ambiguous companion who guides the speaker across treacherous terrain while knowing them intimately.
— A young poet transforms a seashell into a golden rose, a spiral staircase, and a tower, finding ancient scrolls of saltwater within its chambers.
— A young poet searches for a golden orb for seven days, finally discovering it feels unexpectedly salty to the touch.