"In the weeks before the pandemic I put most of my energy towards my part-time job, making popsicles in Bushwick."

"When she can’t reach the shelf, she shakes her head. She is not shrinking with age. It’s that the world has collapsed around her."

"That time when you left and everything blew up blue and I, undone in the earliest splintering of day, rebel-yelled no to the nothing."

"The boy took one of the tree’s blossoms in his hands."