Day 150 of 2026
“The Long Check”
Things found in the garden after five o'clock:
— one trowel, blade-down, handle tilted east
— one punnet, three cells still occupied
— one kneeling pad, mid-row, committed to a task not yet finished
— two gloves, draped as if their owner evaporated mid-sentence
— one mug, cold, its steam concluded some time ago
— one fantail, darting between the kale and the available light, belonging to no one
— no hurry anywhere on the premises
— evidence of intention without its completion
— a sky that has not yet made up its mind
— the afternoon, still technically underway