in my apartment that i have now, but it’s much larger and near the top of a skyscraper. the lights flicker and we hear sirens. it’s a tornado warning. i look outside and see three funnels from the same cloud. they’re spindly and far away. i think we’re not in danger but then i seen […]
Tag: children
walking to a small brick school in a row of town homes. the army rushes in wearing SWAT gear. i take the first left turn once inside and run up the stairs. i hide behind a partition and put a chair in front of me. i know they’re not there for me, that they’re there […]
running to class. taking a shortcut i remember like muscle memory in this UK city. i go into a building and take a narrow winding stone staircase up to a bridge that will bring me across the street to the second level of another building. but this bridge is freaking ancient. the sides have mostly […]
i’m a big black football player who has come back to his hometown. i visit a family (my family?) in an old farmhouse. there are two children there, a brother and sister. they are about 6 and 7 years old. the house is a disaster. cluttered and with puddles of water all around the house, […]
With Mo at the top of a high hill or low mountain. they tell us the roads might be washed out. we should wait to leave. but we go anyway because Mo (who becomes Audra) has to pick up her little brother. she promised. so we find a good strong slab of stone to use […]
Dreamed that I passed a mangy albino coyote walking slowly across an empty neighborhood street. We made friendly eye contact and I hoped it would find shelter before a neighbor spotted it and had it killed. A few blocks down where families were outside enjoying the beautiful day, the pitch black shadows of a wolf, […]
i keep dreaming about hannah. and kids. kids that hold out their hands for me. kids that spend days with the paper and pencils i bring them. kids that fall asleep on me staring at hannah.
had a dream that me and my boyfriend stared at this beautiful leafless tree in the twilight before dawn on a winter night and we admired the branches that grew from her base and we wondered if they would keep growing straight up into the sky as they were doing now. then she went to […]
