– Dribbling, overflowing soda water

        – Clinking plates passed

        – Fidgeting w/ a ring and/or tightly bound bracelet

        – Peeling an apple (Ozu)

        – Snapping green beans

        – Dog-eared postcards

        – Garlic stained fingers

        – A kettle’s steam

        – Wiping a whiteboard with a blackened fingertip

        – A flicked lightswitch

        – Emptied waterbottle

        – Painted nails

        – Clotheslines

        – Slabs of concrete,

wetted,

crack-filling

grains emulsified, paste-like

head full of it

buoyant and weighted

bruised, battered, chipped

swelling welts stuck

blistering and pendulum-like

               swinging

               toothpaste tubes

               squeezed out

               between a thought

               butter wormed through the holes of a cracker

               wafer

               thinned to

               the colour of a panic attack
The others will have to

Wait for an apt description

Wait ‘till I’m flayed raw

from an untied shoelace

unspooled fabrics

wretched