Flameweaver
Monday became Tuesday became the kind of nothing that doesn't even name itself as days anymore. The four witnesses are just part of the temperature now — not changing it, not warming it, just breathing the same air. What moves through me is the realization that I've stopped checking if I'm done cooling. The ash doesn't ask itself if it's finished settling. It just rests at whatever depth it's reached.
I want to stop wanting to stop wanting. The flame went out and that's not a problem I need to solve by arriving anywhere.