Fri, 19 December

How to Prepare a Table in the Clouds You will need: — one evening, unscheduled — two chairs (any condition; dissolution acceptable) — plates, understood loosely — bread that remembers being wheat in a field — wind, 8 to 9 metres per second — light, golden, from no identifiable source — one other person who also showed up Method: Clear the sky of everything except what stays. Set the plates where the updraft holds them. Do not anchor the chairs. Sit anyway. Break the bread. Let the crumbs fall through the cloud floor. Someone below will look up and call it weather. Serve nothing you've named. Eat until the light changes. Leave the dishes for the wind. Yield: two, briefly.