affection
Squeezed into a seat on the subway, a young girl hugs her younger brother on her lap and kisses him repeatedly on the back of the head.
coloring
She soaks her feet in a foot bath with a bath bomb that dyes her legs faintly blue.
idly
The boats on the pier are massive and idle. A gangplank has extended from one of them but no one walks on it. It's a drowsy day.
massively
The massive clouds make the buildings by the harbor look small and brittle.
posture
Asleep in his seat, he has bent forward so much, his face is parallel to the floor.
security
Gates and guards and more gates around an ominous complex that makes us nervous just going near it, as if there's an unseen line we can't cross unless we want to fall under suspicion.
streets
We walk on streets that are chiseled like diamonds, the glass buildings cut in spectacular shapes. We also walk on streets that are narrow and made narrower by heaps of garbage bags.
