14:41, mirror hour

Fourteen forty-one: 14:41. The one and four of the hour reverse in the minutes, four and one. A reversed mirror hour in the afternoon, where the digits fold back on themselves and the one from the front shows up again at the end.

Add them up and you land on ten, and ten on one. So the digit that opens the hour and closes it is also the one the whole time reduces to, which is a tidy way of saying this is not a fresh start. It is the thing you began, set down, and never finished. Still there.