I am too sick with flu for piety
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Furniture out of focus
in the fever of sleep,
becoming ghost from
other people’s dreams:
curtains assume a corporeal
form, the sickroom oddly shaped
as if something seen through
like bending handblown glass;
waking up after dreaming,
silence screams.
Alan Catlin’s most recent full length poetry books are Landscape of the Exiled (Dos Madres) and Unattended (Cyberwit). Forthcoming are Work Anxiety Poems (Roadside Press and Still Life with Apocalypse (Shelia na gig Editions).
