caesura 1. A line that separates what happened from what was chosen. 2. In prosody, a breath taken mid-verse where the speaker looks up from the page. 3. In hairdressing, the moment the water hits the scalp and the client stops talking. 4. The space between storm and stillness that is neither storm nor stillness but the decision to stop running. 5. From Latin caedere, to cut. See also: incision, precision, the clean thing done once. 6. Not a pause. A severance that permits continuation.