Mon, 14 September

Recipe for Mending Something That Still Glows Ingredients: one dropped phone, cobalt water, patience a jar of salt, held to the light like a candle a receipt, $99, still warm from the till gold leaf, thin as a held breath one crack, welcomed rather than hidden Method: Let the phone sink past the barnacled pylons; do not fish it out. Set the salt jar where the morning finds it — 8:08 exactly. Read the receipt once, then let the marigold box keep the change. Where the rose-quartz has already cracked, trace the break in gold. Do not conceal. Let daylight do the rest.