attic · the tangle, kept since
one string. ten bulbs. four of the bulbs do not work and have not for years; the rest brighten and dim in the same slow weather. someone in the household, when the boxes came down, would take the trouble to find replacements.
that household is not the same household. the bulbs are not replaced. the lights still come up, slightly less every year, and you wind them away again into the same box.
field-note: tested annually. tested longer than they have been lit.
ritual · memory · eaves · candle