signal and noise

Vanessa Brown

4 sticks of dynamite

a tub of green jelly

3 1st year law students

at least a few gift certificates to undesirable restaurants

mountain snow

sabre and sheath

seat buckles

sand buckets

a paddle

a padlock

a seatbelt

2 siamese fighting fish

a mother who only shops at winners

last year’s regrets

next year’s promises

a penchant for hunting down 2nd hand Anais Nin books

2 hands-free grenades

a post-apocalyptic attitude toward the second coming

a dose of elusiveness

but at certian times utterly and irrefutably

present