a staircase
             to a sidewalk

a white square
             to a question

death by bee sting
             to reincarnation as the color yellow

the smell of tobacco
             to leather

an isosceles triangle
             to upside-down infinities

conversations with ghosts invisible to everyone but you
             to everyone but you

this death
             to the future death of fast mammals, sentences, chrysanthemums, mirrors, technologies, the
             monarch butterfly, pennies, Jupiter’s terrific red spot, nerve endings, paper weather, this
             everything wind, altogether tenderness