Close- up of a translucent rose melting into rose- quartz liquid on a graffiti- carved bench, its droplets merging with blood- orange leaves that glow faintly. Reflections in the bench’s rusted bolts reveal spectral chalk drawings of hopscotch grids and a phantom swing set swaying empty in the background. The playground’s slide curves like a spine into fog, its surface mottled with shadowy handprints. Moonlight bleaches the scene silver- blue, except for the rose’s dying core, which pulses faint vermilion. Details: a cracked marble lodged in leaves, a single red mitten dangling from a skeletal tree branch