New York City, February 6, 2017

★★★ Full sun raked the surface of the schoolyard. The cold was sharp to walk out into but never sank any deeper. The children ran around in their puffy coats, ignoring the student teacher’s attempts to line them up earlier than the real lining-up time. Downtown, a bird tweeted somewhere or something made a sound like a bird tweeting. Two figures lay in sleeping bags on cardboard against the building line, completely covered. The sun went higher but never got out of the eyes.