you’re on the phone with your mother again,
but in this dream, you are
screaming endlessly
endlessly
endlessly.
no words careen out of your broken mouth
just guttural,
wounded sound.
you are ceaseless, you give
no room for her to respond,
but in this dream,
she doesn’t feel the need to.
in this dream,
she understands.— Wanda Deglane, from “Storms from Jupiter,” published in Moonchild Magazine































