10:10, mirror hour

Ten repeats itself in 10:10, a double mirror hour in the brightest stretch of the morning. The sun is high, the work rhythm has settled, and the two tens on the clock briefly interrupt whatever is happening with their two-digit symmetry.

Ten and ten, and the digits behind them come to two: the number of a job split between people. Mid-morning is when the work stops being yours alone: somebody has to reply, sign, show up. The symmetry on the clock is not asking for a decision. It points at the half already sitting in someone else's inbox.