Pioneer Square Vignette № 2.

I decided to go out for lunch one day last week instead of holing up in the loft. Wednesday April 6, 2022.

I walked up Yesler on my way to Uwajimaya for lunch. A man in his 20s with a mouth in its 90s walked past me, his head shaved, tattoos faded across his forehead. Tall and thin, he swayed down the sidewalk, like a stalk of wheat in a Palouse wind.

He wore a flannel shirt — too…