Sun, 7 June

MIDWINTER INTERIOR WITH HERON Items present and accounted for: — one armchair, deep, receiving — one man, mid-fifties, surrendered — one mug, half-warm, held loosely — one lamp, doing its entire job — one heron, motionless, not ours to explain — six small photographs, pinned without system — one child's drawing, floor-level, unsigned — one pair of boots, scattered as if dropped by weather — one window, holding the violet-grey sky at bay — one afternoon, requiring nothing of anyone — one man, already listed, who has noticed this