I awoke enwrapped salty in hot horror,
sheeted in a writhing running,
trapped like a bruise,
a yolk...
My eyes saw but a dark brain
and its strobing film,
and I was scared -
scared as a beaten dog
in the middle of the sea,
shivering sweat as I choked uvula.
How can I avoid such bitter-biting,
fetus-folding, bile-tide lands
of this slumber smother?
Who's visions be these? Oh, but to lower the lids now
would mean yet a return
to the pupil's bleeding pillow,
the heart beat's pounding bellow,
my shirt a white flag flapping
in surrender to my script...
So, I turn over,
counting lambs,
their bahahahahaha a lullaby to my
nerves, lumped like wool.