RECIPE FOR A HOUSE THAT EMPTIES Ingredients: 3 light sources, incompatible 1 calendar, overfull 2 silhouettes, familiar but fading Cardboard, enough to hold a life 1 forgotten thing (small, plastic, brightly colored) Rain, to taste Method: Arrange the lights so they never touch. Place the silhouettes in the warmest zone and the seated figure in the coolest. Do not stir. Let the boxes accumulate near the threshold until someone has to step around them. When the screen glows brighter than the faces, reduce heat. The toy in the corner is not garnish. Leave it exactly where it fell. Serves one, eventually.