I dreamt I didn\u2019t have a baby.<\/p>\n
Pregnant, the baby always dies,<\/p>\n
or I am just sterile.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I decide to bury the dream<\/p>\n
no one else needs to know<\/p>\n
Jotted on a slip of paper<\/p>\n
folded it in half and half again.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Tucked in a book,<\/p>\n
the slip wormed through the pages<\/p>\n
Buried at the base of a tree<\/p>\n
The relapsed reverie sprouted<\/p>\n
through the soil.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Someone picked the sprig and<\/p>\n
The dream turned into a black moth<\/p>\n
Come back to bang against<\/p>\n
The pane of my consciousness.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I caught the winged thing in a net<\/p>\n
Pressed it into a palimpsest<\/p>\n
Then placed it in my pocket<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A piece of lint must have<\/p>\n
Inseminated it<\/p>\n
Used its slippery tongue<\/p>\n
to implant into my pocket lining.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The embryo forgotten for a time<\/p>\n
But even the expecting pocket<\/p>\n
Miscarried, the fetus<\/p>\n
fallen to the floor of a grocery store<\/p>\n
Assuming the shape of a silverfish<\/p>\n
Skittered out over the linoleum<\/p>\n
I picked it up and shoved it<\/p>\n
To the bottom of my purse.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
One day I knew the bag needed cleaning<\/p>\n
Among the stray receipts and hand sanitizer<\/p>\n
I found a form that had finally come to term<\/p>\n
It was inevitable, discovering it, again<\/p>\n
The thing I wanted most.<\/p>\n
Do not unfold it.<\/p>\n
Do not erase its scribbled face.<\/p>\n
Stay teetering, on the brink of tossing it out,<\/p>\n
or thrusting the memoir back to the bottom of my bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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