The girl in my dream is trapped in a snowstorm of chicken feathers, unable to breathe for the fine white down. She’s tied up on a bed with a small glass jar forced between her big and second toes so she can’t use her right foot to unpick the lock. Then she bathes with her lover in a sunken pool the size of a room, lit by candlelight and crowned with bubbles. They cling to her as she rises from the warmth and walks through the cold, dark house where she opens the door to another room, its harsh light. She’d forgotten all this: the mountain of dead chickens, the stink of rot.
midday:
a black cat in the shade
of a whitewashed wall
Modern Haiku 38.3 Autumn 2007
midday:
a black cat in the shade
of a whitewashed wall
Modern Haiku 38.3 Autumn 2007
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