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Grey room, slow light: a figure in a suit with a storm for hair— not rain—red bladders of air, a raspberry of small moons. He holds their threads like leash or prayer, palms bright with rubber squeak. On the floor an apple waits, freckled and deliberate, cool as a planet choosing fruit. A white hen no taller than the future steps around it, pecks the silence into crumbs. A red bird on matchstick legs, beak busy with string and sunset. His face is porcelain and almost uncommitted, a coinface, expression unspent. The tie is a river taught to behave. Each bulb above: a buoyed thought, each thought a lung that refuses to land. The air smells faintly of sugar and glove powder. And then the room tilts—who is tethered to whom? Maybe the birds keep him from drifting, maybe the apple anchors the afternoon. He loosens one finger; a sphere lifts— small weather leaving the scalp of the day. The rest holds—by choice, by thread—while the quiet learns to float.
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