Field guide No. 217
The missing guest
A gap at the table, laid for it.
A long candlelit banquet table in an empty warehouse at sunset curves neatly around a missing chunk in the middle, as if someone large got up mid-course. Every other place is set.
Field noteTables can be built round a gap. Laying for whoever made it is etiquette, not metaphysics.
Also possible, also breaking nothing
Reserved for the moonTheatre seats can be shipped anywhere a rocket goes. Nobody has paid the freight.
A well-kept secretA jeweller could hinge a walnut by teatime. The vice is just there to make a point.
Ants mend a shattered cobalt teapotAnts do bridge gaps with their bodies. That they chose a teapot is odd, not contradictory.
Current exhibitionA gilt frame stood in the surf is a weekend installation. The tide does the curating.