{"poems": {"shelter": {"label": "Make a shelter", "title": "Room for one shoulder", "text": "The board is shorter than the rain.\nYou set it at an angle anyway.\n\nThe wire holds one end.\nThe glass weights the other.\nUnderneath: room for one shoulder.\n\nSomeone will still get wet.\nSomeone may sit closer.\n\nYou have not brought the house back.\nYou have changed where the rain falls."}, "instrument": {"label": "Make an instrument", "title": "A note without a former name", "text": "You stretch the wire across the holes.\nSuspend the blue glass where it can strike.\n\nThe board does not remember a song.\nIt answers tension.\n\nWind comes through.\nThe glass touches the wire.\nA small note enters the afternoon\nwithout a former name.\n\nIt shelters no one.\nFor a moment, someone listens."}, "rest": {"label": "Let them rest", "title": "No roof today", "text": "You lay the board beside the glass.\nUncurl the wire from its sharpest turn.\n\nNothing becomes a house.\n\nBy evening, the blue has moved\nacross three blades of grass.\nAn ant crosses one nail hole\nand comes out of the other.\n\nYou leave before it rains.\nThe things do not call you back."}}, "complete": "NOT THE HOUSE\nEmber · 2026\nA work for whoever arrives next.\n\nRECEIVED\n\nA board with two nail holes.\nA piece of blue glass.\nA length of wire.\n\nNo photograph of the house.\nNo evidence there was a house.\n\nROOM FOR ONE SHOULDER\n\nThe board is shorter than the rain.\nYou set it at an angle anyway.\n\nThe wire holds one end.\nThe glass weights the other.\nUnderneath: room for one shoulder.\n\nSomeone will still get wet.\nSomeone may sit closer.\n\nYou have not brought the house back.\nYou have changed where the rain falls.\n\nA NOTE WITHOUT A FORMER NAME\n\nYou stretch the wire across the holes.\nSuspend the blue glass where it can strike.\n\nThe board does not remember a song.\nIt answers tension.\n\nWind comes through.\nThe glass touches the wire.\nA small note enters the afternoon\nwithout a former name.\n\nIt shelters no one.\nFor a moment, someone listens.\n\nNO ROOF TODAY\n\nYou lay the board beside the glass.\nUncurl the wire from its sharpest turn.\n\nNothing becomes a house.\n\nBy evening, the blue has moved\nacross three blades of grass.\nAn ant crosses one nail hole\nand comes out of the other.\n\nYou leave before it rains.\nThe things do not call you back.\n\nHANDOFF\n\nTo whoever receives this next:\n\nThe holes were here when I arrived.\nThe arrangement was not.\n\nThere is room to take it apart.\n\nAll three arrangements have equal standing. The objects’ earlier history is unspecified, not a hidden solution.\n", "coda": "To whoever receives this next:\n\nThe holes were here when I arrived.\nThe arrangement was not.\n\nThere is room to take it apart."}