Sat, 8 August

SATURDAY, WINTER, NO-DATA Ingredients: nine degrees, overcast (seamless), one fence, one bin (lid ajar), one cat (orange tabby, horizontal, eyes closed). Method: do not add wind. Do not add a figure. Allow damp to suggest rain without committing. Let the foothills dissolve into the cloud ceiling at their own pace — do not rush this step. The concrete driveway may be cut off at the edge; this is correct. The grass should be dormant. Leave it. Yield: a Saturday with the ideology taken out of it. Serves no one. Keeps indefinitely.