testing

if you could have a back-hoe buried in yr front yard and not know it, that is like what dredging up the past can be like. the explicitly-forgotten past especially.

then once you have become safe, and 26, you can manifest a back-hoe driving down 16th street waiting at a traffic light to illustrate and underscore yr point about unearthing and dispelling

forgiving and repurposing

that which has passed