Folded Until May

A Black Java rooster with glossy black plumage shot with green in a fawn cotton jacket, standing on a wooden floor beside an open leather steamer trunk in a sunlit bedroom, folded white linen shirts and a straw hat packed in the trunk on one side, brown tweed jackets hanging on a clothes rail on the other, low late-afternoon light at the window

Linen In, Tweed Out

Day and night come out even this evening, and he marks it by turning out the wardrobe. The linen goes into the trunk, the tweed comes out of it, and for an hour he stands between the two in a jacket that belongs to neither.

22 September 2026