1. The colorless windows stared into the sizzling asphalt.
2. Our Eureka couldn't bring itself to snort your spilled coffee grounds.
3. He sifted the aftertastes of their drinks over the room with his piano.
4. This bird's mango feathers were a much better sight than the holiness of hymn books or the false smiles of housewives.
5. This scotch, he knew, would trickle into his stomach and tip him away from tipsy.
1. The sparrows kept to their business.
2. The sparrow's dusty feathers left me unexcited.
3. Shopping for school supplies sucked the beach trips, loungy days, and tall glasses of something from her eyes.
1. We leaned solemnly on the fence around the flamingos' pond.
2. The shrimp-feathered flamingos scooped into the barrels of algae, skimming off the impossibly thick layer.
3. Each slippery swallow settled in my mind with a happy plop.
1. Daily, the purple martin catches mosquitoes.
2. We now slip their nests into the tree, letting the martins laze into spring without the bother of construction.
3. The razor wings of our martins efface the sky.
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