Sketch #30: When We Go Underground

Beneath the surface, in this suspended world between stations, something shifts. The noise of the subway, the brakes, the voices. But in the middle of all that, people seem to fold inward, into thought, into memory, into themselves. There’s a kind of quiet that doesn’t come from silence, but from detachment. The small ways people hold themselves together down here. We go underground to get somewhere, and while we are underway, we also drift a little. To let go, just for a moment, and find the strength to resurface.

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