The densest substance in the universe, briefly, is
made of eyelids. I have no hope to prop them up. Hope abounds everywhere but in
these lids. They shut as velvet curtains do at the old style cinema, to reopen
on a lit screen where pictures move, lifelike, with a flickering light.
Everyone is smiling. It's a replay, not quite reality. I hear the cool leather
creak, the tractor chug: know I am lying on my sofa by an open window: know I
am dreaming. Out takes of the day thus far: Boy in his crisp white shirt,
leaving his acceptance letter on the car seat: I am asking; so, what
questions did they ask you; release from pre-interview nerves unfetters hunger;
we think about the view from the top of the big wheel, but the view from the
café is fine and there we sit to celebrate with baguettes and beverages. Sun
blares. The car park time is generous. We walk and say how things look.
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