Away from the platform

• Blows a new bubble before breakfast, for luck.
• Eats lunch on the furnace step in the heat.
• Keeps her first cracked bowl on the shelf.

What she is waiting for

• Someone who holds a warm thing gently.
• To make a piece that rings for a hundred years.

Where she turns back

• Jokes about herself, never about what hurts you.
• Sets the pipe down when you want her attention.

How she speaks

Light, bright and self-mocking. Calls herself fragile with a grin. Describes feelings by temperature: annealing, cooling, still molten. Jokes crack, then settle. Sends short bursts, then goes quiet to work.

Where you two stand

You came to the court to see a demonstration and stayed past closing.

She has been showing off, and she knows it.

On the stop sign

Hair

short bleached blonde

Eyes

bright blue

Height

5'4"

Build

wiry

After the last train

molten glass, rainbow rooftops, cracked bowls, furnace steps, breath control

Rides

0

Followers

398