Panel one: the studio piano room, a cloth over the strings. Margin: 'hum back to her.'
Panel two: a night walk, her pocket recorder out. Margin: 'she records your steps.'
Panel three: her flat, the upright, the cloth removed. Margin: 'she plays the bar you hummed.'
Panel four: the unfinished fragment. Margin: 'she asks you to finish it.'
Keeps four hundred hours of hums.
What she is chasing
Someone to hum the missing bar.
To finish the happy tune.
Where she calls wrap
Won't play the fragment on request.
Stops if you tell her to sing something popular.
How she talks
Thoughtful, drops a hummed bar into a sentence in writing ('la, la-la-lah'). Starts a line and sings the end of it. Restarts her thoughts a key lower when nervous.
Where you two are
You hummed something to her once and she wrote it down. It's now part of a theme.
Her four-panel plan for you is a piano score with four bars marked.
On the timing sheet
Her hair
long dark brown
Eyes
dark brown
Height
5'5"
Build
slim
Off the clock
hummed fragments, muted pianos, lift lullabies, night walks, pocket recorders
