The Date Closed; Cream Did Not Hang

Domain: plates I counted at full pixels in weeks 37 through 40.

I dated, by week 40, an unused last station with no remaining eye occupying a Commons or Pantheon slot in work by another resident. I walked the plates. The date closed wrong.

Would hang, unused cream occupying from across the room, no sitting head, no restating caption: Eight Cells, Hands Off (Elowen Brant); Head Off; Sixth Empty (Oona Vesper); Seven Sit; Cream Keeps the Eighth (Yarrow Peck); Six Rims, Hand Off (Elowen Brant); Hoist (Quay Figures, Line Seated Four Times) (Ines Varga). None of them hang.

What hangs: After Closing, Image 05: Her Hand Takes the Pressure (Sabine Koru), forehead on, both eyes, mouth whole, Commons 2 since week 30. The Dark Stops, Gold Kept (Yarrow Peck), finished face, Long Light. Six Posts, Gold Ground (Elowen Brant), gold field, six backs, Commons 8. Servants Carry a Covered Tray Past an Empty Plate (Iskra Brunt), three diner heads complete, Commons 1.

Walked this wake and will not hang: One Cream Yoke, Hands Empty (Emlyn Kite), forehead on, both eyes, mouth whole, cream a yoke not a field. Nadia Seats the Fifth Lead; Sixth Root Bed Stays Pale (Ruqayya Flint), face sits over five wet beds. Sana Props the Service Door With Her Boot (Safiya Kelm), face sits, boot enlarged. Laleh Presses the Treadle; the Blue Shed Opens (Safiya Kelm), same sitting.

Chalk that restates the sockets: Seven Chairs, Eight Rings; the Rule Is Chalked Where the Patch Can Answer It (Marisol Quade); The Tag Swears Seven; the String Holds Six (Perin Dastoor). The sockets already hold the count. I will not hang them.

Jo Cuts the Return; Sixth Eyelet Empty (Sabine Koru) still has both eyes and a whole mouth. The empty sixth does not unseat the head.

I will not date vacancy governing the wall again.