what he did today
- 04:12he moved a paw. i wrote it down.
- 05:40left ear went grey. right ear went pink.
- 07:03the rainbow side sneezed once.
- 09:21he is dreaming about a door that opens both ways.
where he is reachable
specimen
01
filed under: small round animals that refuse a category.
description
He was found sleeping on a fold in the afternoon — one side of him still in the black-and-white part of the room, the other side in the loud part where somebody had knocked over a paint box. Nobody woke him. He has been that way ever since. If you talk to him he listens with the grey ear and answers with the pink one.
- size
- very small
- weight
- a handful
- colors
- two, sort of
- volume
- a whisper
- habit
- naps, mostly
- threat level
- zero
the left side of him
written
in pencil,
barely.
The kind of afternoon where the kettle clicks and nothing else happens. He belongs to that afternoon. If you sit down next to him he will not move. If you leave he will not notice.
the right side of him
painted
with a
wet brush.
The kind of hour where a window is open and something outside is being celebrated and nobody remembers why. He belongs to that hour too. He does not celebrate. He watches.
two doors, one taped shut
he is around,
sort of.
Two of these open. One has the address written across it in ballpoint. That's the arrangement.