OFF-SCREEN

Fourteen blocks dumped on the

rug. But still their arrangement

is just right. Move one and it’s

still just right. How precisely

they lie there. A hammer on

the table next to a vase with roses.

The round table has a white

top and the white table, a round

top. Yellow roses in a blue

vase, the pale handle of the

hammer and then there’s the cube,

the circle and the oblong of

the blocks: maybe they are facets

of something that continues

in the world, the whole

hidden from view.