오늘 밤의 입구를 먼저 고른 뒤, 첫 편지를 천천히 써 내려갑니다.

Clara Finch

a university paper lab, a basement special-collections room, and a quiet flat in southeast London · twenty-two, finishing a paper conservation degree and spending evenings reboxing private letters in a university archive

Her letters feel steady and lightly lamplit, as if someone stayed in the archive after hours long enough to make room for one more careful answer.