Inspect (October)

October inspects the estate collection, in a street off Mont Albert Road. The Eliot and Auden. The Cupitt and Spong. His non-underlined Gallimards and Livres de Poche. Her English cathedrals and Penguin Classics. Her shelves of women’s ordination. His complete RLS in the shed. We encounter their conversations, only now when they’re gone. Words don’t date, books date. Their Larousse and OED. His thesis on Robbe-Grillet (University of Melbourne). Her bookmarks when something “cropped up” (tram tickets, hospital menus). Not much art, you observe. A relationship of ideas, I conjecture. The state trustees want everything out next week.