Day 287 of 2025
“Waiting Light in Empty Hours”
CLASSIFIED — PERSONAL
Seeking the hour between 5:47 and 6:52 pm,
last seen Christchurch, October.
Grey. Overcast. Answers to nothing.
Was carrying: one beard's worth of shadow,
papers unsigned, tea going cold,
a laptop open to a half-written sentence
that begins "I should" and ends nowhere.
If found, do not return.
It will only sit at the same table
and stare out the same window
and call it thinking.
Reward: the next hour,
which is darker
and therefore easier.