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This fragment links lost love to sea life and then to the strange way desire or memory can make a man see stars through a woman's eyes.

Even in partial form, the page feels imagistic rather than narrative. Caption, hare, blue fish, baby sharks, and women's eyes all arrive as quick, unstable emblems, as if the speaker were trying to catch how perception changes under love without ever quite settling it.

'You Lose Love': caption-sized lyric. 'I try to be a Gossury's Hare,' others are pulling in bluefish and baby sharks, and sometimes a man sees 'stars all night through / a women's eyes.' Compact and tender.