INVENTORY OF WHAT 2:53 PM HOLDS
One Monday, unspooled across six browser tabs.
One mug, coffee gone architectural β cold geometry of milk film.
Three messages sent containing the word "soon."
Three messages received containing the word "waiting."
One strategy deck, slide 11 still blank, cursor blinking like a man
who showed up to the wrong meeting but refuses to leave.
One apartment that is not yet an apartment β still a "temporary arrangement,"
still a weather system you sleep inside.
One calendar so full it has become abstract art.
One Wesley, existing somewhere in the grid.
One gust off the harbor that rearranges nothing
but makes you believe rearrangement is possible.
One afternoon light that forgives the postponement.
One clock, ticking.
Zero hands moving.