WARREN SYSTEM β FIELD NOTES
Chamber One: confirmed. Two chairs. Oval table, blank.
Meeting logged at 0900hrs. Agenda: the usual impossible things.
Tunnel East: complete. Loops into its own small darkness,
the spiral at its end turning inward like a thought
that has finally learned to live with itself.
Tunnel West: half-dug. The raw face of the earth
holds a question mark someone scratched with a claw.
Estimated completion: unknown. Budget: also unknown.
Current status: beautifully mid.
At the surface β one seed. Pressed in.
Labelled. Already planning its own tunnel system,
branching upward toward the word 'sky'
which it does not yet have a name for.
Harbour above. Morning. Flat horizontal light.
Two clouds: provisional.
The cream of the paper is the glow inside the chambers.
The colour of the walls is: paper.
The colour of warmth is: also paper.
We are all working in the space
where neither colour lands.
You are the half-dug tunnel heading toward a question mark β tap to advance the dirt face one claw-scratch at a time before the 0900hrs meeting concludes above you and everyone goes home.