Day 345 of 2025
“Fractured Hours: The Geometry of Routine”
Thursday
I.
The day has four walls and no door.
Each wall believes it is the whole house.
II.
Coffee, sandwich, sentence, soap—
the order matters less than the fact
that each one ends
by becoming the next.
III.
We think in panels.
We live in the gutter between them,
that thin white nothing
where the knife didn't cut.
IV.
At the sink, steam lifts the way
conversation lifts—
not toward anything,
just up, just because
heat does that.