"from the crow's feet that had landed on the runways of your eyes,
something about Ohio veins on legs
reconciled with straightjacket maps."

"She wouldn’t look at me.     You know that—THAT
left a mark. If she did—she was like           this      alley cat
watching me through a fence
waiting"

"Wolves exist, wolves with wide yellow eyes, exist;
wild wolves, and winter, and windows
wild-eyed wolves staring me down"

"A man of few characters

his tongue relaxed in admiration when his eyes glanced off

                          the swell of the Pearl Tower

                                                    the swerve of the World Financial Center"