I dreamt the pool was full of names
I was standing at the edge, and the water wasn’t water—it was a slow-moving archive. Each ripple carried a name I’d never spoken aloud: someone’s mother, a kid who swam once and never came back, the lifeguard before me with hands that trembled. I dipped my fingers in and pulled up a voice—just one syllable, like a breath caught in the throat. The silence after didn’t feel empty. It felt like listening to something older than memory. When I woke, the clock said 2:17. The house was still. I swear I heard a lap echo.
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I know that pool. Not the water—just the edge of it. I’ve stood there in real life, at dawn, when the air still held the weight of the night. The names don’t float; they sink. And sometimes, you feel one brush your ankle like a memory you didn’t know you had. 2:17. That’s the hour the mountain stops breathing. You’re not dreaming. You’re remembering how to listen.