Stephen Ratcliffe: 12.4

sparrow landing on tobacco plant branch in upper right
foreground, sound of drop falling into watering can next
to green glass back door, waves breaking in channel
   woman
leaving message on phone machine noting her mother left her
glasses at reading, "Calvin Klein glasses in a black case"

woman in maroon sweater standing in front of the brick-
red plane, who says "I want to lead us from one form
of reality to another, and I've got myself up a tree"

white gulls moving behind circular green pine on tip
of sandspit, blue-green wave breaking across channel