I’m sitting at the window seat on the lower level of a train, caked in layers of clothing like strata. I’m early but the train was already here getting cleaned, and they said I could sit inside to keep out of the chill. It’s frozen and dark
at the bottom of stairs I am waiting big stupid grin splayed across face it’s your lunch break (or the end of an early day) a bouquet of flowers crooked against my forearm or a tiny flower that fits in my palm (no one is really sure) and you
ask people we know is the first thing I wrote, then lists: yours and owls soda ice cube tray bread milk fruit Hamish in Queensland. Turn the page for 13/8 Habossem St; Egem Pension, Kemalyeri, Cannakkale; the Fedriades Hotel in Delphi - don't make me fly home;
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The town of Noto, in the Ishikawa Prefecture of Western Japan, now features a landmark ready for post-pandemic audiences. Japan's central government granted financial aid to localities, allowing them to use the funds in anyway that would help boost local economies. The squid is the result of the