The dictionary offers the following for cloistered: “providing shelter from contact with the outside world.”
Three restless nights, three over-stacked days. But for coffee shop respites, I was fully contained. But for occasional connection, it was an isolation of necessity.
It’s an interesting circumstance… to retreat from a place so as to better understand it. To depart from a decision to facilitate its rendering.
The darkened corridors illuminated. Sleeplessness stirred peace.
A window out. It’s always a window… out.