The whirring of a ceiling fan; stirring humidity into sticky shreds.

Click-click of mouse buttons; single click to select, double click to enter.

A crow, black as night, shrieks throatily. Sharp as day.

Earthworms dig. Softly but surely, they dig secrets out of the universe.

Their incessant noise wakes elephants from deep sleep.

Creaking; the nails of an unhinged gate. Old. Time has killed it.

Scratching, coughing, breathing, laughing. Snoring and thinking.

A heartbeat of  girl. Kissed, for the first time.

Dust settling on a dirt-track road, settling on the trees. The three o’clock bus has just gone by.