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I.

A smallish woman with brownish hair

sits across from me on the subway.

As the fluorescent lights flicker,

so do her eyelids.

She wraps herself tighter

into a brown leather jacket

eight sizes too large

as she drifts.

II.

A young, freckled boy

with ruffled hair

grows bored of sitting in brown winter grass.

He decides to run

full speed across the yard

and jump over the fence,

channeling his most convincing convict.

The sleeve of his brown leather jacket

catches on the wire.

Three days later it is repaired

and he jumps again.

III.

Two faceless people brush past each other

on a narrow sidewalk

in Chicago

on a Tuesday afternoon

during their respective lunch breaks.

One

wears an old brown patched leather jacket

that the other

donated to Goodwill the previous week.

IV.

A girl passes a note

to the boy sitting next to her.

He hides it safely in the pocket

of his brown leather jacket.

V.

A four-year-old girl named Joy

dreams that she is going to die.

She does not wake up

screaming.

Her brave tears roll

silently down

the curve of her round cheeks.

Her father walks into her bedroom

and thinks she is asleep.

He drapes his brown leather jacket

over her shivering body.

VI.

Three tear drops fall

onto the left sleeve

of a brown leather jacket.

VII.

Six-foot-nine,

three hundred pounds,

size XXXL brown leather jacket.

He works as a bouncer

and nobody has the guts

to look him in the

eye.

He loves to collect baseball cards

and read bedtime stories to his children.

VIII.

A man is arrested

for the third time.

He removes his jeans

and his brown leather jacket

to don a more comfortable orange jumpsuit.

IX.

"Ma'am, would you like me to remove your jacket?

I'm afraid it doesn't exactly match our dress policy.

You can pick it up later from the coat room at the front of the restaurant."

X.

An old woman with deep crow's feet,

laugh lines,

and neon blue hair

lies in a brown coffin

wearing a brown leather jacket

and a peaceful smile.

XI.

The boy named Jack has the best smile

out of everyone in her biology class.

She loves

that his eyelashes go on for miles

like outstretched toothbrush tendrils.

She loves

the way he looks

in his brown leather jacket.

XII.

A brown leather jacket

is draped over the back

of a wooden chair with red upholstery

in front of a humming desktop computer

in an empty library

after closing time.

XIII.

A young boy in Tonka truck pajamas

bounces beneath a sparkling tree

as his parents rub sleep out of their eyes.

As he unwraps the first box,

his ruddy cheeks bunch together like

curtains

to make room for a gap-toothed smile.

He wears a brown leather jacket to bed that night.