Do not keep the patient between decks, or in the forecastle, deck-house, or after-cabin unless the weather be so hot, cold, wet or stormy, as to prevent the patient remaining on deck.

It’s the fluorescent lights creating a veneer. Crows dive through. No cream please. It hangs, about to settle. His dad doesn’t see him in the dark. He reaches his hand out and his dad kneels beside the bed. We will be well, that is the ending that I fold in with close attention. You learn to milk it with your fingers. Well in a kind of a pulse. As the reservoir drains and swells. We stay there in the front seats while you sleep. These 24 hours begins with heavy rain. The base layer is the air conditioners of the building next door. Like a kind of tinnitus, an itch. At daylight sent the boats out. At 3pm the boats returned without success.