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dreams, ghosts, hallucinations

a sad girl

...lying in bed this morning, I woke to the sound of the bedroom door opening.  I hear my wife slowly close the door behind her. I hear her footsteps on the floorboards, approaching my side of the bed. I cannot move, cannot open my eyes. I feel a fingertip on my arm, just inside the hinge of my elbow.  The footsteps move away.… Continue reading a sad girl

dreams

lion

…and in my dream it is a lion that circles and follows me—a savage pet that, inexplicably, had made us his family… …I see a screen door opening and closing, sweeping its shadow across the afternoon light… …I see a four poster bed in a sea of boxes, an island of bitter regret… …I see my son.