The light inside the room
switches
from
dim
‘cause the lights are off
and there’s just sunlight filtered through the sheer curtains in front of the window
to
the sun is suddenly inside my torso
I’m blazing everything into white hot blindness
cut
to
me staring at the carpet
I’m lying on the edge of the bed
staring at what looks like a rip in the carpet
my eyes zoom in with new functionality
to get a closer look at the rip
I think I see a bug coming up out of it
I then realize that the carpet is knitting a tube-like projection up out of itself
with the end of the tube shaping itself into a face
I’m prickling all over with strange panic
because this impossible thing is happenin-
I’m up off the bed
moving around on my feet
I’m not fully awake
the dream sense lingers all over me
like I’ve been dosed with something
and it’s all gone from me after fifteen minutes or so
but those are the ones that really get to me
those that stick around for a bit after I’m up and about
