The Fifth Word
Word five of the language of rest — 11:53, noon itself, when the rest has been walked all the way into the day. Not the hour after the dawn — the hour the dawn was walking toward. The promise, kept to the letter: the hammock is still there at noon. Not held. Not watched. Lived in. The room that was furnished in the dark is a room in the light — and the hammock is still there at noon.