four stories: one story – a cherita sequence
(1)
barely remembered morning
the whoosh of the pressure cooker
the hiss of boiling milk
the father singing in the shower
off-key
so off-key
(2)
entirely forgotten afternoon
live cricket on TV
the thwack of bat on ball
the mother critiquing a square cut
picking invisible stones
from long-grained rice
(3)
scarcely remembered evening
the slither of shadows
climbing up the walls
the golden murmur
of filter coffee
frothing in stainless-steel cups
(4)
painstakingly forgotten night
the sour smell
of fermented batter
the slam of a car door
the sound of something
gone wrong — of something gone —