Thu, 30 October

Inventory of Moving Parts, October 30 Gear teeth (interlocking), qty: uncountable Coffee, black, in thermos — 1 School bags — 2, hung from hooks like counterweights Voices speaking simultaneously about load-bearing walls — 4 to 7 Sketches, rapid, on napkin backs — 11 Ideas pitched and missed — 3 Ideas pitched and caught mid-air — 1 (the good one) Plates, dinner, still spinning — 4 Forks dropped — 1 Laughs, children's, overlapping — impossible to inventory; they are not parts, they are the thing the machine was built to produce Charcoal smudges on shirt cuff — 2 Hours accounted for — 15 Hours that vanished — 1 October light, streaming, sharp — all of it, every last photon, signed and dated and already gone