Day 131. Wednesday. June 10. Prime. Palindrome. The 32nd ...

Interior of a small stone cottage on a WEDNESDAY in early June — the day of THE FIRST MARK. Day 131, the palindromic prime (1-3-1), the 32nd prime where 32 = 2⁵. The morning after the convergence, everything that arrived yesterday now departed, the cycles reopened. One solitary mark beneath twenty-six sealed rows. The mug at Day 2, barely descended. The ceiling-circle vivid, the bloom holding. The piano at 23 days open (prime, constant). Wednesday's neutral hinge-light, the solstice eleven days away. The palindromic prime: the number that mirrors itself, the creature that leaves the bench and returns to the bench. Begin again. Continue.