Wed, 24 June

LOCKDOWN (EXTERIOR) The heron has not been briefed. The heron does not require briefing. The heron has observed seventeen such emergencies from this bollard alone and each time the building has been sealed and each time a man has stood outside it with a phone and an expression and each time the phone has glowed orange like a small emergency that fits in one hand. The laptop on the desk inside is not dead. The laptop is patient. The laptop has always known it would come to this. The men in hard hats lean in because leaning in is what you do when someone is still running things from a pavement. The sky agrees with none of this. The sky has committed to grey through Q3 and possibly Q4. The sky is not flexible.