the mother fixes nothing so she ain’t gotta hear of it breaking again.  the father saves on the sly for a rabbit.  the brother lives long enough to see one of his eyes challenge the designation of his sister’s foresight

as a miracle
of brevity.  the neighbors argue over whether it’s a migraine or a headache.  what one tells the lord, another tells an angel.  the god is the god that teaches a snowman how to have a stroke.  the animal learns to speak by having none recall what it plans to imagine.