silly simpered Stanzie flushed in the neck rock children on ice most delightful shrimp in laugh-land stockinged ladies at the bar maids tinkling mother & son in hockey helmets tipping their chins

awake, half & screaming recognizable voices warn into her left ear:

Follow. Fire.

she wakes then sinks back into cold sweat sleep epileptic or only crazy only blue-veined blanched ripe

cold though the night describing

fresh though the timers keeping

rather kind, rather familiar