It was marvelous to see this still life in a private apartment near Harvard Square. Someone arranged it for the passerby, kept the shade up. I wonder what happens at night. I wonder whether the still life is lit then.
Duck, horse, church, red tassel, sage, shoebox, carrousel riders but no carrousel. What else is there? What can you see? Not the absent person. Do you make altar-like arrangements like this one?
On another day, this time at the pond: snarled, useless fishing line and fly caught the light.
Fretted leaves make shadows.
October days: I want to be out, in them.
