Day 213 of 2026
“The Compass Needle Finds North”
song· 130s
generating...
WAITING, SCHOOL GATE, WINTER
1. a man in a coat
2. a gate not yet open
3. breath
4. the lamp that did not wait for dark
5. letterboxes dissolving leftward
6. letterboxes dissolving rightward
7. pavement the colour of thinking about cold
8. plane trees with nothing left to say
9. the enormous fact of the sky
10. the gate
11. still not open
12. his hands in his pockets, their own small warmth
13. the amber cone, the only thing still trying
14. everything else: honest