Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Draft
An Incubus
slipped into the bedroom well after
her catatonic blundering left
the thumbturn haphazardly horizontal, and
she, drained by drunken key-search fumbling,
left her wide yawn last to close
on the night. With the clanging noises
to gain entry blunting the edges of all
other sounds—the whine of hardwood
panels under pressure as they strain
against the nails that hold them
down—her ears are turned to inward
silencing.
Hypnogogia is off for the night, subdued
to the shadows by flesh-bone-blood—
no need to creep around the body out cold
and dreamless, stealth lost on the piss-drunk
girl, still vacuum-sealed in bar-sweaty
spandex.
She stirred, mumbled.
Still again, the intruder, treading the fine line
of grey-out amnesiac security, pushed
shadows from eyelashes across her
cheekbones like ink stains her mascara
made the morning after.
The sun slunk
in through hang-over inertia, and blistering
recollections leaked pus onto her pillow
as she sat up, the sleep-sand deserting
her eyes. The fragments reassembled
into a limbo somewhere between
dream and memory.
An incubus
came to bed last night.
^^ not a true ending. plus the indentations are all fucked as well as the linebreaks... yeah...
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