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I woke up before the alarm and for ten seconds I could not remember what day it was

Tonight the sky will be just as blank. This letter is about what that feeling means in a dream.

I washed the dishes twice tonight

Once because they needed it, and once more because I was not ready to let the water go.

I wheeled a suitcase to a wedding and sat it under the table

Nobody mentioned it. That bothered me more than the bag.

I forgot the best dream I ever had

By the time I picked up my phone, it was gone. Here is what the window looks like, and what to do in the first few seconds before it closes.

I read Nadia's email standing up in the kitchen

Three lines about a swimming pool she keeps not getting into. She wrote: it is not a nightmare. Nothing bad happens. I just never swim.

I had the drowning dream on Thursday

The water was a stairwell, filling from the bottom. I was climbing with a bag I would not put down.

I sat with one of your replies until my coffee went cold

Daniela wrote about her hair. Her mother cut it when she was seven.

I missed the bus and stared at my shoes for twenty minutes

The next one was already at the top of the road. The lateness dream says the same thing about wherever you have been trying to get to.

I woke at three and could not move

Eyes open, ceiling fan turning, a glass of water I could see but not reach. And someone by the door who was not there.