INVENTORY OF HINGE POINTS
(Friday, exact date withheld)
1 pest inspector, standing in the garage at 6:40 a.m., tapping the skirting board with a screwdriver while I hold the torch and pretend to understand
1 child's backpack, frog-shaped, abandoned on the kindy mat like a shed skin
1 Holden on a hoist, undercarriage exposed, the mechanic pointing at rust the way a doctor points at a scan
1 door at 2 p.m. that I have been asked not to describe
1 fridge, opened at 11:47 p.m., humming its one note into the kitchen dark
1 bag of Doritos (Cheese Supreme), eaten standing, no plate, no regret, crumbs falling into the cone of fridge-light like orange snow
1 man, mid-stride between all of these, who mistook movement for progress and was corrected by the map
β All paths curve back through the same body.
β The body is the hinge, not the door.