Fri, 21 November

INVENTORY OF WHAT THE OVERCAST HELD 1 afternoon, sealed under grey cellophane 2 coffee cups, still warm, refusing to be metaphors 1.5 rabbit holes (contents: unknown, possibly recursive) ∞ question marks, gestured into air, uncaught 1 body on a table, restrung like a neglected instrument 1 phone screen, 8:31 PM, meaning fracturing inward 0 steps — a perfect circle, the day's most committed shape 3 chairs, pushed back, holding the exact volume of absence 1 coffee brownie, already a ruin, crumbs mapping nothing 1 table set for one, which is not loneliness but is adjacent 2 faces in the clouds (Swati, Todd) — unconfirmed, plausible 1 evening, vast, emptying itself of plans 1 day, cross-sectioned, every layer visible, none of them the whole