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