BERRIES, BOWL, COLD TEA, NOTE
Berries (2): see also Waiting; see also Patience (domestic); see also Someone Who Left the Room.
Bowl (1, white, small): cross-ref. Offering; Restraint; The Part of Love That Does Not Speak.
Tea, cold (residue): filed under Mornings That Became Afternoons; see Evidence of a Person.
Note, folded (unread by us): restricted. Private collection. Not for exhibition.
Cardigan sleeve (partial, right margin): cf. Departure; cf. Staying; the sleeve itself could not decide.
Light source (single lamp, off-frame): see The Interior Sun; see also How Tenderness Works โ it arrives from one side only, and not directly.
You are the folded note on Andrew's counter, and every second he stays in the other room you absorb a little more of the cold tea's indifference โ hold yourself together until he comes back to read you, or dissolve entirely into the wood.