No one to hear but Records for the broken player. No reason for order but order persists, from breakfast to bath to work, rain falling at one speed, the windows darkening and blurring, accident beating against belief. A loud engine, which is one way to say one thing. The floors swept daily, though it takes at least one hour for the first, one for the last. In the pages of a book, quick studies of gesture, tents of hands.
Copyright © 2005 by Saskia Hamilton. From Divide These. Used with permission of Graywolf Press.