Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.

Killing time takes practice.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.