remember how you told me you’ve been sitting on your porch, unable to work all through summer (how’s your family now? mine too is falling apart) i am sitting on my balcony, the city sounds are painful, except birds — swallows nesting in the parking lot underneath the building — their circular construction of salivary laminae cemented treasures. do you know that. the industry of edible birds nests have exceeded five billion dollars annually. i have days where i can hardly raise my body. produce no sweetness, process no evil this is what small creates do. work, to reproduce the sound of their species, their miniature…