New York City, May 9, 2017

★★★★ Children were kitted out in puffy coats to go to school, but here and there an adult wore only a suit. Wool was unwearable and unnecessary, the chill having retreated the tiniest bit more. A cloth cover, inflated by the breeze, swelled and pulsed over a scooter or motorcycle, the shape within completely impossible to know. The clouds that had dulled the late day then caught and spread the shine of the rising moon.