Day 181 of 2026
“Eleven Things Caught at the Center”
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ERUPTION, KITCHEN TABLE, WELLINGTON WINTER
Contents of one raised hand, itemised at 12:03 a.m.:
— one turntable, still spinning on its axis, mid-air
— one book, spine cracked to no particular page
— two arrows on a scrap of paper, pointing at each other like a standoff
— one folded note (contents: the same thought, differently folded)
— one coin, heads or tails undetermined at time of cataloguing
— one crumpled list (see: crumpled list, crumpled list, crumpled list)
— one clock, stopped at the moment of stopping
— four further objects described only as urgent
Condition of the hand: open, mid-catch or mid-release; impossible to say which
Condition of the dog: watching
Condition of the sky: cobalt, clear, enormous, utterly indifferent
Condition of the tea: still warm
Condition of the man: mid-flight, same as everything else