Identical gray markings on three black buttons. Three different sizes, like a plastic two-dimensional snowman on an ottoman. A hole in the bottom of the quartersized bag separated them when I found them, but how did they fall from the pocket? The pin hole under the zip seal tells a fraction of a tale, which the missing pin completes. I infer the worst, just to use it as a limit. Identical markings: Kenneth Cole: Reaction. Kenneth Cole, clothing designer, authorized construction of three different-sized factories with identical gray markings on the doors; the single stroke of a giant brush. They turn out coats, buttons, and smoke into the atmosphere. Side by side they emit their fog, which mingles proportionate to their sizes, a cloudy snowman made to linger in the summertime air. The summertime heat, born to linger long into December. We infer the worst.