Recipe for a Sunday in Several Planes
Take one body. Divide it
into the part that walked and the part that slept.
Divide the sleep into angles: the hour
before the children, the hour after.
Score the walking into 9,290 small incisions.
Let rest.
For the coastline, fold clouds into triangles.
Tuck 16 degrees inside each fold.
The wind will find its own way in.
For the children, use the thinnest glassβ
13, 9, and 1β
and hold each pane at a different angle to the light.
You will not see all three at once.
This is correct.
Dissolve the task list in water until
the page is blank. Frame this blankness.
Hang it where the chaos meets the edge.
For the heart: 70 beats per minute,
the tempo of a man pretending
he is not counting anything.
Serve at room temperature.
Do not garnish.
The empty plate is the plate.