It happened again. I want to be precise about what again means because people use that word loosely and I cannot afford to. Same car. Same spot, middle of the street, short of the light. not parked. stopped. there is a difference and the difference is the entire point. A parked car is against the curb, done for the night. This one sits in the lane with its lights on like the street is a waiting room. Eleven days between the two photographs. I checked the file times three times.

The thing I hear is: maybe somebody was dropping someone off. I have thought about that longer than the people who say it. A drop-off takes ninety seconds and the lights point where the car is going. This car's nose is angled toward this side of the street. toward the houses. and the cat crossed BEHIND it. the cat crossed the whole road and went around the back bumper. even the cat wouldnt walk in front of it.

I took the picture from behind the curtain at the angle with the least glass distortion. There are two people far down the road in the frame. small. you have to zoom. I did not see them when I took the picture, I found them in the file after. twice now. two for two, if you are keeping count, I am keeping count, and I keep telling myself it is the zoom that does it, the zoom finds things the eye skips, except I checked and it is not the zoom, so now I have to go back through the march folder and look again at everything I already looked at.