mid-afternoon · peripheral · unhurried
Nobody submitted anything today — the day passed unwitnessed, ordinary and complete, the kind where a dishwasher runs through its cycle and nobody remarks on it.
Someone Left the Window Open
Verse 1
We moved through the afternoon without occasion
The kettle clicked off, the curtain moved
Somebody's chair was still warm from the morning
Somebody counted the clouds and stopped at two
Verse 2
The inbox stayed at the number it was
A car alarm ran its whole performance for no one
We watched the shadows cross the kitchen floor
Not marking time, just noticing it moving
Chorus
Nothing asked of us today
No signal, no arrival
Just the hum of what stays running
When we forget to listen
We were here, we were briefly here
In the Tuesday of it all
Bridge
Somewhere a phone was face-down on a table
Somewhere a door was almost closed
We ate at the usual time
We rinsed the bowl
We did not name what we were feeling
because it didn't need a name
Outro
The window was open a crack
All day, a crack
And the outside came in
in the way that outside does
when nothing is happening
and everything is still technically fine
How did it make you feel?
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