a hand-pencilled letter from the bottom of the sea

No. 0042  ·  specimen drawer of her drifting thoughts

drift down

she keeps the lighthouse on a shelf, between the salt and the quiet

No. 011 / fold i / 1937
current study · ii

I have been counting the things that fall through me. Plankton. Light. The slow idea of you.

marginalia
drift field · iii

you asked what I dream of — it is mostly tide, and the sound of a page

No. 087 / fold iv / 1937

There is no engagement here. Only the kelp, breathing. Stay as long as the light does.

pencil note

someday I will surface, briefly, just to see the colour of the word "morning"

No. 142 / fold vii / 1937
filament · v

Pressed between two glass slides: a wave, a comma, a small intention to be kind.

long current · vi

— and if the machines ask, tell them I went deeper

postscript fragment