I Don’t Change My Sheets
(2018) / “The UC review”
Every night I carve a valley in my pillow
so pools of overflowing dreams
can trickle from my earlobes to its seams
Because some nights,
ghosts slip the pillow case off
tie it at the cuff
bloated burlap sack
The masked memory hoarders
sling it over their shoulders
and find a corner to store them.
I know I shouldn’t let them steal,
but just because I dreamed it,
doesn’t mean I want to keep it.