The Hidden Wheel

A coffee shop.  Two glass sides.  On the left hand side reflections.  Directly to the front, the glass doors.  Closed now to the cold air.   Conical form of the paper cup.  Hemisphere of the china cup in its saucer.  The table flat.  Inspect its grain.  Plastic wood.  Fine plastic grain, like untreated pine of some sort perhaps, but that isn’t it, no varnished just bare smooth wood.  A glass.  Beer in the glass, no tea.  Just three bubbles where the liquid’s surface meets the glass edge.  Inspect the rim of the glass.  Slight pink tinge from the lights above reflected and outside the shop, the cafe, the long pink sign of a hairdressers.  Stone set in the floor.  Under each glass panel a steel support fixed with screws every yard, approximately.  In the picture on the wall behind the counter that takes up approximately 50% of its upper half, a huge green wheel, which on further inspection turns out to be the close up of a brooch fixed to someone’s black well-groomed hair.

Tags: Bubbles, Glass, Hair, Reflections