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Diorama (map legend)
Snow:
comfort, the deep kind
that doesn’t always reach you
but is always streaming toward you
House:
where one lives and rests;
a matted area;
a pause or omission in a story
Factory:
an attempt, carefully measured and painted;
a modification made for everyone’s safety
Snow:
a serif font
Gold River:
a town that forms from wear like a blister
Scissors and/or cured rubber:
essential supplies;
the safest way to touch a story
Button, red:
a girl, sudden, or a sudden girlishness
Ribbon:
window light from across a field that you’ve wound around a clump of your hair
Button, silver:
a tooth fallen out of the mouth of the problem;
a clean beginning, cauterized and healing;
a girlish glint of wetness at the ends of a man’s hair
A Woman:
a wick; a man; a candle
A Man:
a candle; a woman; a wick;
a woman who cools quickly
Gold River:
a town where the houses are holes cut out of the fabric so the light can shine through
Murdering:
an extreme form of counting;
the opposite of counting
Gold River:
a dying river with restored flow
Gold River:
the last minutes of sleeplessness in which you seem to have solved the problem;
the layer of fat that seals and preserves the meat in a container
Gold River:
a disaster left off the list of disasters;
a disaster that shines when polished and set out on a tray with other disasters;
a disaster that flips a switch and turns on other disasters
Diorama (map legend)
Diorama (a
moment with the doctor)
Diorama (the young soldier returning to duty)
Diorama (there is a love story)
Diorama (trapper
standing over a young woman in a blue dress)
Diorama (young woman lying on the ground in a
blue dress)