(live:1s)[the last time I came here]
(live:3s)[ I didn’t need to [[break in]]]
(live:1s)[glass blue-bottle bricks]
(live:2s) [fling light on the deck]
(live:4s) [its midden of [[scraps]]]
(live:5s) [crumbling [[under]] the laundry chute]
(live:6s) [its ottoman bereft of empire]
the Hills Hoist a skeletal rotunda
(live:1s) [where bats [[dry out|under]] like lingerie]
[under the staircase]
[a two-way cupboard]
(live:1s)[the [[way in]] between drywall and vine]
(live:1s) [glass wool and fungal lace]
[tiny green tiles]
[(cycling-link: 'repeat', 'repeat', 'repeat') in the hallway]
[a tray of jade mochi]
[from the bedroom]
[fern-green cathedral glass]
[ a bulb burns]
[ [[inside]] an avocado]
[a crumpled pink doona]
(live:1s)[in the [[shape|visit]] of [[a human body|decay]]]
[ between rooms a [[window]]]
[ opens like a toy theatre]
(live:1s)[ frames a tableau of [[decay]]]
[ a tower of pizza boxes]
[ by the corpse of a sofa]
[ its antique(click-replace:'antique')[ghost] smell of (cycling-link: 'bong water', 'thrift store', 'clothes left in the machine')]
(live:3s)[the [[mattresses|inside]] have bred since my last [[visit]]]
[propped up against woodstove]
[ a faded auction sign]
[ the blueprint of when]
(live:2s)[ this [[address]] breathed]
I only [[slept|inside]] here once
(live:1s)[ [[upstairs]]](live:2s)[ on the floor]
(live:3s)[ all the lamps dimmed]
(live:4s)[ the room [[burnt]]]
(live:4s)[ cinnamon umber]
a map on the wall from 1995
(live:2s)[ shows all the [[Brisbane|verandah]] I have lived since]
the kitchen is [[shelved|burnt]]
with chicken wire
[ hutches cradling (cycling-link: 'mismatched dishes', 'an empty cereal box', 'a jar of deflated bath oil beads')]
(live:3s)[ oven chips [[abandoned|map]] on the cooktop
like severed fingers]
out the window
the [[verandah|upstairs]] begins to (cycling-link: 'sway', 'shiver', 'crumble')
in the [[bathroom]]
with its slippery-dip chute
(live:1s)[ a red ironbark blooms in the tiles
flame red on eucalypt ]
(live:2s)[ blue](live:3s)[ on bluer blue]
(live:4s)[ this mosaic outlives [[Pompeii]]
vivid in the dust]
after the demolition
[ the casement windows extracted
like gold teeth]
[stashed behind the jacaranda
where the old auction sign]
[ (cycling-link: 'presses', 'eats', 'dissolves', 'rots') into soil at the trunk’s base]
(live:5s)[[[go around back|scraps]] and start over]I try the water
(live:1s)[ a [[mirror’s|myself]] extendable arm]
[I touch my finger]
[to the spot that marks here(click-replace:'here')[right here]]
[ brush(click-replace:'brush')[rub] [[away|Pompeii]] the [[mildew|burnt]]]
(live:2s)[ polish [[myself]] into the [[map]]]