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The best hour of the day, defended

Jonah Pike·

Mine is 6:40 in winter, before the kettle, when the windows are still a dark mirror and nobody wants anything. It lasts twelve minutes and I protect it like a meeting.

Name your hour. Say what it is for. Say what you refuse to let into it.

2 replies

  1. Mara Ellison·

    Four in the afternoon, tea, kitchen table, no overhead light. It is the hour I remember that I live here and am not merely passing through.

  2. Elena Voss·

    Ten at night after the dishes. The house has a different acoustics. I read one poem out loud to nobody. That is the whole hour.