One: Fingertips ice with cold, turning them a blueberry white, tiny strands of grime under fingernails and in cuticles

Two: the corner of a cereal box is read in comic stans in screaming yellow and pouring cereal into a single pastel bowl

Three: The pamphlet for many retirement homes in a drawer that no one goes in anyway next to the octagon pencils lacquered a yellow and with flat erasers

Four: A letter of apology and fistful of condolences in a yellow envelope from a sorrowful son in law

Five: curtains that framed the rattlin bones of the house pulled back from a day unspoken

Six: Two wrappers of Werther's Originals candies that once lay in her pocket but now were idoled in open eyes

Seven: an empty closet hanger next to his coat
Eight: paisley sheets that had dried tears enveloped in silver linings.