Countdown

The magazine is loaded and the trigger is ready the flash of a gaze passes between the eyelids and swiftly turns over each and every object: the jumbled bookcase and the broken bed the torn quilt and the particles of ink that race ahead among the bright flowers and leaves of the carpet and the swing of the pendulum... The pole star is visible in the sky and the moon circles once again around its earth the earth around a sun and the solar wheel... The magazine is loaded and the sweep of the hand behind the glass can be seen...