Day 333 of 2025
“Between Earth and Sky, a Dinner Waits”
INVENTORY OF THINGS BETWEEN
1. One rectangle of light, dining-room shaped, cooling on a plate
2. Seventeen hours of pressurized air (economy, window seat, shade drawn)
3. A cloud system the size of a small country, doing nothing
4. The salt shaker left on the table — or was it put away?
5. One passport, one boarding pass, one set of house keys that open a door 12,000 km from here
6. The word "home" — currently unassigned
7. Four unanswered texts, all saying safe travels
8. The gap between pushing back from the table and pulling down the tray table
9. Six hours of grey that could be morning or evening
10. Whatever the opposite of arriving is