"Pink stranger."
"Forgiveness, the problem of infinities,
spanning the beach, decayed gradations, one goal so freshly
dead, it seemed a toe might nudge it
into flight, the next, a dreary hump, mere moldered feathers,
and then a heap of bones, a necklace
cast aside with one long, golden pendant, and so on.
A ladder, each rung the future of the rung
below until nothing, a buoyant emptiness,
the smell of just-sprayed sidewalks
before the start of business, forgiveness."