they compete amongst themselves
for your attention, your care, your love
you know almost everything about them
they know almost nothing about you
they live when you dream
they sleep when you don't
whether or not they have dreams of their own
I don't know, but they are fighting to exist
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Photo : The people in your dreams
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With pre-dawn clarity
ReplyDeletewe discuss ghosts, believe in them
like we believe in the brush of timothy,
the sting of gnats. The creek carries away
our words; falling stars
burn through a shifting mist.
A pale rock becomes
a skunk. A hand becomes wind.
/Kristen Lindquist