Chines of light collapse opacity - worms raid through solidity, easing apart - ants break open a cicada skeleton - creak of a smile, joint of coughs - negotiating themselves into narrow chairs - holes in the roof, cracks in the wall, sleet noise, shrapnel scatter loosed from beyond a hill fortification - woman in a business suit - finds her stare without a blink quite sexy - a good night of it he says, wondering where he put his wallet - leaves in gusty wind - ways of entering the palace, you know what I mean? Parting the externals, ho-ho, losing your breath, ho-ho, dying - we all have such limited time, pay attention to what is happening - operating methodology containing less than benign growth - cosmology