Night Terrors and Daymares / Vol 1 (Print / PDF Anthology) June 2018
--Previously Published: Amygdala (Online) 2015
Nearly dawn
near the border:
Seconal, Valium, booze.
No one expected
the slow opening of eyes,
least of all
the man among the ferns, dismayed.
This was to be the longest sleep,
the rest, at last, so well-deserved.
Imagine his surprise:
dew-soaked, a slug
across the bridge of his nose,
no shoes or recollection.