Window chair — blue tin

This is not a speech and not a vote. It is the shape of an evening when the canal looked like wet stone and everyone pretended they had not been standing in the doorway listening.

Nothing here is a shop. Not the jars, not the apples, not the boats, not my time. Ask with your name on the day you mean it.

I will not reply to every thank-you. I will notice if the kettle is on the cellar stair again.

Counted twice because I do not trust my own memory after bread.

The orchard is wet. The barrow is where Lena said. I did not improve either situation.

No drama intended.

I tied it back. Same cleat I found.

I was not there for the whole evening, but I was there for the part where someone moved the map and Elise made the face she makes when the map is not folded. That is enough context for me.

No drama intended.

Agreed. I will not be interesting about it.

I am not asking for a bed in this reply. I am asking the board to stay boring in the useful way.

No drama intended.