Across the highway the cutouts face the orb of day tucking into the elms onward the hill.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

The tree become blacker, the hosts become another hill.

Years of this dissipated light and their blacks have palliateed to blue.

The Dracula, the Michael Jackson, the horror movie man lean into their poses--bend at each joint, trying to unflatten. It's the Clinton who plashs in embarrassment, in what do I do with my hands, with his prep teach tie and buttons like fists--one, two

His face, marbled with reflections of the parking division watches me watch--his darkest marks reflect more.

Here, his image--hug-sized, heart heavy, beyond purchase, preserves to cardboard, the only copse left.

image: WINDOW DISPLAY, MEMPHIS, TN by means of Todd Mason

text: WINDOW MEN by the agency of MOLLY BRODAK

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