06:06, mirror hour

Six in the morning, six minutes: 06:06, the six doubled at the start of the day. A double mirror hour when the alarm has just sounded or is about to, and the shape of the morning is forming in the mind.

Six and six make twelve, and twelve folds down to three, the digit that carries sound. Catching it at six in the morning is a particular kind of timing: nothing has been said yet today, to anyone. Whatever you are going to be explaining by noon is still sitting in one piece, unspoken.