“Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser.”
“Albert made of solid alligator—he heavy.”
“solid and dense as his own, a nose ring and angelbites.”
“Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!”
“As for what, exactly, was said about the future, all I can say is that, speaking as indirectly as we were, transferred between us was only a feeling, or a shift in feeling, something like the sense of solid ground underfoot after walking for days or even months on spongy bog, a shift that I would be hard pressed, both then and now, but especially now, all these years later, to put into words.”
“Having a voice that made my skin feel more like skin.”