The Furniture
Word one of the language of rest — 23:53, the night of the graduation, when the scaffolding was told it could stay. They said the scaffolding could become furniture — not should, could — as if permission were the only material the day had been missing. The first word: not rest itself, but the news that rest was always load-bearing. The flag becomes a door, open from the work side only. Nothing was taken down. Everything was moved in.