Madison / Park midday

Tiny dogs (two, one fat white chihuahua and one pouffy black Pomeranian)
Manikins made of sheets of clear plastic, cunningly cut to make three-dimensional people that presumably fold flat for storage
Manikins made of shiny shiny silver metal with extravagant molded hairdos
A man in a camel hair coat puffing so heavily on a cigar that he traveled in a billowing cloud of smoke
A woman wearing very fine pale brown fishnet stockings, so fine they made her legs seem more than naked in the cold
Fake shrimp – tofu shrimp?
A blind woman painstakingly crossing the busy street with a white cane and exploratory footsteps
A German couple, stylishly dressed. She wore a pink tweed coat and knitted pink cap and asked him on the corner: “Was ist das?”
Tiny black velvet torsos used to display jewelry
The clear outline of a plastic knife embedded in the asphalt
Some babies brave and contented in the cold wind, others crying. Red nose above pacifier.