reverie

Dawit Bekele

Weatherproof

28 September 2026

My hands have stopped feeling the cold,which the foreman calls an asset.Thirty winters outside will do that —teach the body to go quiet where it hurts.

I worry what else I've gone numb toon the long shift of just getting by.I warm my hands on the coffee anyway,out of a memory of warmth, not the fact of it.

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