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you are here. the light is good today.
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entry no. 042 — rain on the cedar gate

№ 042

you noticed the rim-light on the lacquered post, just before the rain.

— you stayed until it was wet through. that was the photograph. —
hover the stage. the rest of the room loses focus, the way a lens lets it go.

№ the long archive — frames before today

  1. № 036—low tide light · the salt on the railing
  2. № 035—quiet morning · the steam from the kettle
  3. № 034—paper lantern · the way it forgot to swing
  4. № 033—rain again · the gutter learned a new note
  5. № 032—cedar dust · the broom and its long argument
  6. № 031—noon glare · the lacquer refused to be ordinary
  7. № 030—a wasp · it photographed me first, i think
  8. № 029—evening blue hour, but warm · the brown of dusk
  9. № 028—the bell rope · still, then not, then still
  10. № 027—tea stain on the ledger · a frame in its own right
  11. № 026—moth at the screen · the most patient subject yet
  12. № 025—first frame of spring · the cedar gate, opening
  13. № 024—snow melt on the step · the floor remembered the cold
  14. № 023—a single candle · f/1.4, and still not enough, and that was right
  15. № 022—the cat returned · briefly · then the parking lot again
  16. № 021—winter dust · slower than summer dust, somehow
  17. № 020—the kettle again · always the kettle · always worth it
  18. № 019—frost on the window · a contact sheet of one
  19. № 018—the long shadow of the torii · 4:40pm · gone by 5
  20. № 017—rain on the cedar gate · the first time you waited for it
— that is all of them. you have been looking for a while now. —