noem instruments · 1922 · north chimney

an anemometer

three small cups on the roof above the north chimney, counting something patient. it has been turning unsupervised for a hundred years; the count is high and the count is unread.

its register dial was once inside the keeper's office; the office is a stationery cupboard now and the register dial sleeps in a drawer of paperclips. the cups turn anyway. the wind does not require an audience.

field-note · five turns in the time it takes to think the sentence. the wind is from the west, mild, holding.

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