Thu, 22 October

Inventory of the Hours, By Size 07:12 — one fried egg, yolk sun-side up, forgiven for going crooked 07:14 — orange juice, three swallows, the glass still sweating 07:16 — a ticket stub for somebody else's matinee, torn along the dotted line, pocketed and forgotten 09:00–15:00 — six hours, one table, a deck of slides fanned like a losing hand 09:00–15:00 — coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee 09:00–15:00 — half a sandwich, abandoned mid-bite, now a monument Uncounted, folded in: a blue curtain, a stool, a comb laid tooth-up, a flash going off for nobody 17:40 — a trail, cooling 17:52 — shadows getting ideas above their height 17:58 — the light runs out before the path does