Tue, 7 July

READING ROOM (DOMESTIC, CIRCA NEVER) Calendar blocks, stacked: three. Occupant: absent. Steam: arrested mid-curl, presumed decorative. Moth: present, contributing nothing, perfectly adequate. Window: sky or cloud — provenance uncertain, distinction dissolved. Desk: centred. Centring. Meetings: double-booked, two solids occupying the same coordinate, neither embarrassed. Chair: empty by design or by departure — condition of the difference: unknown. Clock: past ten. Past most things. Warmth: one mug. Amber. Already a memory of a memory. Purpose of room: resolved.