Six paper boats, manifest: 1. Blood drawn at 8:47 a.m. — still afloat, taking on water at the elbow bend 2. The herbalist's tincture, color of weak tea — capsized near the second rock 3. Forty-five minutes of walking — lodged sideways in reeds, 2,695 steps from shore 4. The fox my daughter pointed at — moving fastest, hull barely wet 5. Phone call to the specialist, Tuesday — spinning in an eddy, going nowhere 6. Sleep, eventually — not yet launched Total displacement of river: unmeasured Total displacement of self: see above