The slippery transformation of potential into kinetic energy

[counterphobe]

Or, 10 things that might have happened in Toronto

1. Tree trunks sleeved and split half open, bark like chapped lips kissing the air.
2. I wore my boots and smelled damp earth but I never saw the rain fall.
3. They say if you see first snow with a lover you'll be in love.
4. I don't want to be in love.
5. Want to be reanimated.
6. Shatter the glass plane of potentialities, cement seal fractal splinters of every possibility until there's no space for anything but certainty.
7. For four days I snuffed smokes out at the soles of my shoes.
8. Their scar swung in a blunt circle between the soft arc of flesh pinching their thumb and palm.
9. Really, no, and it wasn't a lie: That was my friend.
10. I will never forget this feeling until the minute I die.

[1] got cold when we got there the sky was making space for our heat

[7] like a boy

[8] romantic to think of such a rune on the square of my back between the footsteps of my spine

[10] or did