Tourist: re-enacts her 91 days on a raft
Man Stabbed by his Wife: shows up later with a deer on a leash
Blurry Swarm of Wind: remains attracted by dark clothing and plagued
by bad dreams
Pregnant Woman: checks the sky on the way back to the truck and
insists on moving the
town inland before the sea ambushes
it
Surveyor: grows a tail to help get his body get down a mountain
at night
Silence: filibusters again as if anyone cared; tinkers with phlogiston
inhalants until the
town goes wiggy
Whirlpool: ingests a giant cedar and inspires fear on the aits
and among the jilted
Carpenter: after hearing rats, goes ashore half-dead with a disreputable
disease
Incipient Doxy: forks her thumb in an industrial accident
King of Infinite Space: makes time stretch out unbearably between
horizon and fire
Stranger-the-first: sings a groggy Communism song in the local
dive; marries a certain
wolf woman
Insomniac: suffers her fixed lights and mental horses by planning
elaborate apologies;
keeps warm by becoming a self-embarrassing
machine
Mother: has a lacework of shallow shifting mists in an abandoned
town named after her
Song: makes smoke of laughter and lousy affection
Mad Captain: monkeys around to keep the magnet off; spots new personifications
of god
Mallard Girl: insists it was a mistake
Dead Body: lost
Army Brat: plants large yellow poppies to hide a cliff
Mastodon: grows irresistibly infatuated with large yellow poppies
Replacement Crew: over jacks the wind-chill
Suspect-the-second: your touch replaces her with something realistic
Ice Queen: takes the position of postmaster 99783 and holds a broken
mirror up to your
correspondences. Changing the words,
putting holes and opposition
into them. Into the correspondences
that had been kind.