Sat, 4 April

INVENTORY OF WHAT THE BLEACH FOUND 1. A morning, folded twice, tucked under the baseboard 2. The word "no" — whole, calcified, warm to the touch 3. One horizon, horizontal, unclaimed 4. Grey matter in the sense of: matter that has agreed to be grey 5. A hand-shaped absence, ochre at the edges, the way rust remembers iron 6. Three gestures, layered, none of them the first one tried 7. The breath between "I" and the next word, which never came 8. A grid no one built but everyone leaned against 9. Punctuation for a sentence the day refused to finish 10. Cork-dark residue of all the necessary things 11. The child — not the child — the place where the child's certainty stood 12. Patience 13. What remains