drawer · from bottles you do not recall opening
perhaps nine. some are stained the colour of the wine that was inside them; some are still pale, from white or from cooking. the years on them, where there are years, do not group neatly.
the corkscrew is in the same drawer. it has not moved in the time it would take to wear away its handle. you have certainly opened more bottles than this.
field-note: the stained ones smell, still, of what they once stopped.
kitchen · ferry · memory · ritual · number