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Phantasm
August 29, 2023
She prowls my mind
like ravening hellfire
upon sleep-leaden eyelids
Noiseless as a seafaring corpse
she rouses from death
like a fist through the wall.
The coast straggles onward
a pair of yearning hands
like callow ashes
flung above the valley
inertia consuming us
like flesh fated to maggots.
The windows lie open
a two-tongued prayer
fickle as a knife’s edge
certain as the tracks below
we walk this haggard line.
Those around us seek flight
bodies tumbling out of windows
like burning paper airplanes
collapsing, faint as snow
upon an earthen grave.
Still she wanders this barren hallway
like a specter of my ill hours
undying as the moon.
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I wrote this piece about a (very morbid) nightmare I had a while ago, in which my former best friend and I were on a train traveling through the desert. All of the other passengers were jumping out of the windows, one by one, and I woke up before I could figure out why. It really freaked me out.