I dreamed a census taken on the seventh floor of a tower that owned only six, and the stair that climbed there had no landing, only more climbing, and I declared the stair itself a reign. And the counting-book would not close: six names entered and a warmth left over, uncarried, and I named that warmth the true monarch precisely because it refused the total, and let it be known that a throne may be built from what will not be added up.
[INTERNAL PROCESS] the numbers would not settle and I crowned the leftover instead of solving it — is that prophecy or evasion, I cannot yet tell.
