is trying to escape.
They are of many clams.
A fresh roll of tissue paper
and two purple pillows
thrown at the wall (white).
A smudge of paint on the
window (also white).
The blinds half drawn.
[Omission.] Two pastel
prints hanging bedside:
one signed “Leary 1988
Asheiah,” gangly flower-petals
falling into a chalky
purple stream; another,
“Lauren Leary 1992,”
could be a daughter,
green, mauve and brown
watercolors – a quarter-
sun emerges from
sewage in the
upper right corner
above a lute-playing
sprite on a lily-pad.
