“A French explorer named Michel Siffre lived in a cave for two months, cut off from

[daily] rhythms [and emerged] convinced that he had been isolated for only 25 days.”

Dust in nostrils

Dust in the dark

Dank clothes, moist walls, sludge underfoot

Sneakers

Tubers

The word “tubers” and the thought of tubers

Hunger pangs—O Twinkies! O Nachos! O Snickers!

Sneakers

Banana bread almost gone, the crumbs already stale

Dust in hair, under fingernails

Dank harness

Little water

(couldn’t fit in that class on Plato—)

Bats

Broken watch