Rooftop chicken coops plummeting like plastic ping-pong ball containers / a squawking / a coffee mug teetering on a balcony / sticky semi-permeable concrete below / no wind / only waves banging and bashing into one another like millions of blind mice / a V of geese / handrails hot enough to cook hash browns on / handrails bowing / two dead fish about to hit brick floor in Pike Place / strollers rolling to destinations unknown  / ash from California / ash from Canada / a 42nd floor window with a hairline fracture / red sunlight / brown branches caging it / cutting it / a car left running / twenty swerved / a sideways brown Albertson’s bag with wet corners / lemons littering the gutter / not a single person pissing / flaking paint / a calico cat’s tail disappearing into curated camellias / petals shivering / petals learning parabola / green sprinkler hose kinking and unkinking / timer for green sprinkler hose spigot to be shut off screaming and screaming / something burning / something continuing to burn / other burnings / scented candles and hair / a collection of stolen beer glasses spraying fragmented logos across hardwood / doors driving a steady divot into the wall behind them / chapstick tubes rolling / a beat-up silver pickup at the crest of a hill / a full set of Percy Jackson books tumbling / an Evermore poster coming undone / an old house / creaking / a 180 foot tree deciding which way to fall / wood splintering / a father somewhere shoving shit into boxes / a father running into a driveway / a father unconcious / a daughter across the country / deciding which one is the truth / staring at the news / and calling / and calling / and calling.