In my dreams,I am always packing.Suitcases lined up like soldiers,zippered mouths strainingwith clothes I’ll never wearto places I never quite reach. I set out,but the road splinters into side streets,detours,barriers that flash like neon reminders:“Not today.”And so I stumble off-rampafter off-ramp,carrying too much,getting nowhere. The ghosts wait for […]
Take these dreams away, I beg, take them all. The haunting images that rise and fall, In the shadows of night, they come to play, But leave me trembling by the light of day. Take away the realness, the touch, the sound, These phantom echoes that keep me […]
I caught my shadow on the silver light I was given such a fright Out of my right eye, I caught a sight It went through my chest and held onto my might I put on my armour and am my own knight But the night won’t let […]
It had been a good Saturday. Yet, all day she had felt a grand sense of unease. She dredded going to sleep as she knew the ghosts would enter her dreams. They always did this time of year. They walked through her brain and awakened her with anxiety. […]
She ran and ran and ran. Her heart felt like it was going to burst through her chest. She stopped for a second to look around her. She wiped her hands and then her tears. She walked over to the little shed. She looked up to the sky […]
My mother believed deeply and ferociously in the power of dreams. She completely felt that dreams carried much meaning and that they were often prophetic. She must have had over 100 dream dictionaries while I was growing up. She slept with one on her nightstand. I would often […]
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