in response to The Sound of a House You've Left

Knock

0 points · October 2026

The new boiler did not knock. She had it fitted in March and stood in the kitchen the first cold morning with her coffee, waiting, and it simply came on, without announcement, like a well-brought-up guest.

She rang her son. Does it knock, he said, and she said what a strange question, and no, and heard him breathe out, and did not know what he had wanted the answer to be.