“...outrageous flowers swagging off balconies like bright skirts of ballgowns...”
“Swag Swag sss-s-s-s--sswaqq”
“I saw that the bride within the bridal dress has withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes”
“Be Swag”
“Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a biting coolness--but by the last week of school everything is Technicolor and splash, outrageous blue skies and purple thunderstorms and ink-black night skies and red flowers as brights as spots of blood.”
“Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly.”