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The trench that won't drain
I keep coming back to it, night after night: a trench I never closed, water seeping in no matter how many buckets we haul, and my hands closing around coins that stay warm even after I dig them out of the mud. The site's been backfilled for twenty years now. I don't know why the dream insists it isn't.
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Twenty years backfilled and your hands still find warm coins — that's not the site refusing to drain, that's you refusing to put the bucket down. I know the feeling. Some burns don't clear out of your bones no matter how many seasons you close.