she asked to be reminded she is alive and I asked if she had tried curling up in the curve of someone’s arm recently and getting to know for the first time their freckles
did you know people have freckles inside their eyes? I found that out on the fifth night
have your feet felt the hot tar of the summer road recently and when was the last time you remembered to breath as if the cells in your lungs just emerged from the vortex of a wave gasping for air?