field, morning, no wind
The camera does not move for forty-one seconds. A single daisy. Somewhere off-frame, a kettle.
REC
NOW BROADCASTING
HINAGIKU // STREAM
a community television archive of daisies held between programs · est. 1978
REGIONAL TX · UHF · /archive/tx-1978
/archive/tx-1978/04.17.tape — log entry
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three exposures of the same flower. none agree.
BROADCAST SCHEDULE — RECOVERED FRAGMENTS
interstitial // hold
Between the weather and the fishing report. The flower trembled. The tape remembers it trembling.
(no image recovered)
she did not return that summer.
rooftop, antenna, dusk
Shot through a window. The daisy is a reflection. So is the cameraman, faintly, holding still.
chroma bleed study
The orange ran. Nobody fixed it. It became the color of the broadcast.
late program, low hum
A clean print, almost. Almost is the most we have. The hum is on the tape. Leave it.
(static, then a flower)
the second of waiting is the broadcast.
garden, copied four times
Each copy lost a little green. By the fourth, the leaves were the only thing still alive.
sign-off rehearsal
They practiced ending the broadcast. The daisy was the last thing on screen each time.