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This page is another title-style threshold, setting up a remembered domestic or imaginative scene through `The Back Yard Of A Young Boy`.

The phrase has both literal and symbolic pull. A back yard is a contained childhood world, but the wording also suggests memory as an enclosed private space. By leaving the page at title level, the manuscript turns anticipation itself into part of the experience.

A single typed line, 'The Back Yard Of A Young Boy', standing alone as a title. The phrasing distances the writer from his own childhood by making the boy generic, 'a young boy' rather than 'mine', and the back yard names the small bounded world the piece intends to recover. As a page it is pure threshold, a heading reserving space for a memory not yet written down.