How to prepare a Saturday
Take one body. Remove all motion.
Let it prove in a room at 14 degrees
until the hours rise and collapse
under their own weight.
In a separate vessel, combine:
— sardines (whole, tinned, drained of urgency)
— vitamin C to prevent the softening of resolve
— vitamin E against the oxidation of intent
— manganese, possibly (consult the notebook)
— reishi, misspelled, which still counts
Fold nothing into nothing.
Do not stir.
The notebook will absorb
what the body refuses to do.
Leave it open. The draft
will turn the pages for you.
Serves one.
Resting time: all day.
Yield: a shadow
the exact length of winter.