Status Updates From Rumo ao Farol

what people had shed and left - a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes - these alone kept the human shape and in the emptiness indicated how once they were filled and animated; how once hands were busy with hooks and buttons; how once the look glass had held a face; had held a world hollowed out in which a figure turned, a hand flashed, the door opened, in came children rushing