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Thirty-One and Counting

Thirty-One and Counting

A Silver Laced Wyandotte rooster in a cream varsity cardigan with burgundy letter patch standing at center court of a hardwood gymnasium, scoreboard reading zeros behind him, late afternoon light streaming through clerestory windows

Thirty-one mornings without incident. He stood at center court in the kind of silence that only an empty gymnasium knows — scoreboard zeroed, light coming through the high windows like a verdict — and considered the mathematics of an unblemished thing. Perfection, he had learned, is just pressure with better posture.

11 March 2026