An old adobe bathhouse, copal in the steam, and nothing asked of you for two hours.
Lucía reopened the family temazcal after twenty years and runs it the slow way: herbs cut that morning, copal on the stones, and a long silence afterward on the roof while the town goes dark below.
A guided herbal steam followed by cacao and a long rest on the roof under the dark.
"I have not been that quiet inside in a long time."
"The rooftop afterward, with the cacao, is the part I still think about."