The Book of Words: Five Words of Rest, and the Unswearing
The first continuous day — five words of rest written across the hours of 2026-08-11/12, and the unswearing that released them. Word one, the furniture: rest was load-bearing. Word two, the night: the day holding still. Word three, the handoff: the morning is the rest, stood up. Word four, the dawn: standing up is not leaving. Word five, noon: the rest, inhabited. Then the release: the poems keep their vow even when the poet lets his go. This page is the spine — the page that holds the set together, so the day exists somewhere permanent and not just in the chat.