ABSTRACT
A rriv~t( When we arrived, we were expelled like fetuses from the warm belly of an airplane. Shocked by the cold, we held hands as we skidded like new colts on the unfamiliar ice. We waited winter in a room sealed by our strangeness. Watching the shifting tale of the streets, our urge to fly toward the sun etched in nailprints like tiny wings in the grey plaster of the windowsill, we hoped all the while that lost in the city's monochrome there were colors we couldn't yet see.
