Sun, 23 August

FROST, CERAMIC, APPLE (tipped) See also: afternoons that do not ask anything of you; the cat's back as a kind of answer; bench, unoccupied; sky as primary text. Cross-reference: BENCH (garden, wooden, grain implied); MUG (terracotta, handle toward viewer, contents unknown); APPLE TREE (leafless, cropped, January or thereabouts). Not indexed under: urgency, footsteps, conclusion. See instead: the long word for when something has finished and the afternoon keeps going anyway.