it’s two in the morning
and the chickens are awake
and the bastard dog is barking and chasing them around the yard,
and it is on this tragic night
that those bloody crickets
(whose midnight choir practice outside my window
keeps me up for hours most nights)
have chosen to be silent.
I have been dropped inside someone else’s nightmare. This morning my limbs felt as though they had been dipped in lead and left out to dry in the sun. The heavy, heavy feeling of someone pressing down on my chest as though there was worse to come. You lie awake at night and try to imagine that…