everything comes in threes

three stolen bicycle rims

stashed up in the crotch

of a tree on Battery Street.

three headless

child mannequins

dressed in cheery pastel

spring collection outfits

in the display window

of the Gap.

three small sweat-sheened
bodies lined up side by side

on a plastic sheet with

contracted pinhead pupils,

diameter: three millimeters.

as if life had become too bright.