Sat, 3 October

INVENTORY — winter plot, before the sun gets through one (1) man, quilted, back three-quarters turned one (1) row silverbeet, blackened, salvageable in parts one (1) timber stake, cold, bearing one glove one (1) wire fence, sagging, east boundary hoarfrost, white, thick enough to hold a boot print sky, Prussian blue, three-quarters full one (1) seam of amber light, horizon, not yet spent breath, visible only if you know to look for it bricks, oxblood, edging what is left of the beds silence, held, the kind that keeps its own records