LUCID
All the
slip, lift, and fall, wood stove grunt
or cat filled door, full mouth rot
and smoke again, can’t find class,
can’t find clothes, can’t find report,
can’t dive into the ink bottle shrink,
electric shock on a chain link fence,
train to car to bike to crawl,
can’t find a bathroom, broken bathroom,
no walls bathroom, not a bathroom,
breath-stopped float to powerline sky,
white box truck and run
Not fun, but fine,
but then
there’s the one that’s not scary.
But I realize it’s a dream.
And I want to wake up.
But I can’t.
So I scream.
and torn through
screen of med-thick weight I closed-
mouth real-shriek, to scare him wide,
so he shakes me, saves me, asks again
why, and ______ _ __ _ _ _
Copyright 2024 by Kate Powell Shine (Katherine Shine)
Kate Powell Shine (she/her) is active in numerous local literary communities including those at Montgomery College, Montgomery County Public Libraries, and the Eastern Shore Writers Association. She lives in Montgomery Village with her husband, John.
30 for 30 is sponsored by Potomac Review
